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1. Write any possible molecular formula for the compound CCl2

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CCI2 is an empirical formula, or simplified formula. Molecular formula is the unsimplified version. So you can just do CCI2 x 2 to get the molecular formula, which is C2C2I4. And if you were to simplify that to get the empirical formula, you would just divide it by the GCF, which is 2 and get CCI2.

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