CHEMICAL FORMULA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chemical formula mean? 

• CHEMICAL FORMULA (noun)
  The noun CHEMICAL FORMULA has 1 sense:

1. a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements

  Familiarity information: CHEMICAL FORMULA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHEMICAL FORMULA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

chemical formula; formula

Hypernyms ("chemical formula" is a kind of...):

statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)

Meronyms (parts of "chemical formula"):

chemical notation (a notation used by chemists to express technical facts in chemistry)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chemical formula"):

molecular formula (a chemical formula based on analysis and molecular weight)

empirical formula (a chemical formula showing the ratio of elements in a compound rather than the total number of atoms)

 Context examples 

One of two or more compounds that have the same chemical formula but different arrangements of the atoms within the molecules and that may have different physical/chemical properties.

(Isomer, NCI Dictionary)

The chemical formula of methane is CH[SUB]4[/SUB].

(Methane, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

It has the same chemical formula as glucose (the chief source of energy for living organisms) but has a different arrangement of atoms.

(Inositol, NCI Dictionary)

A group of weak acids with the general chemical formula RC(=O)N(R')OH and antineoplastic and antimicrobial activities.

(Hydroxamic Acids, NCI Thesaurus)

First, the vitamin B3 was found along with its structural isomers – related molecules that have the same chemical formula but whose atoms are attached in a different order.

(Vitamin B3 might have been made in space, delivered to Earth by meteorites, NASA)

This cloud represents a new chemical formula of ice in Titan’s atmosphere.

(NASA Team Finds Noxious Ice Cloud on Saturn’s Moon Titan, NASA)