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EMPIRICAL FORMULA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does empirical formula mean?
• EMPIRICAL FORMULA (noun)
The noun EMPIRICAL FORMULA has 1 sense:
1. a chemical formula showing the ratio of elements in a compound rather than the total number of atoms
Familiarity information: EMPIRICAL FORMULA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A chemical formula showing the ratio of elements in a compound rather than the total number of atoms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("empirical formula" is a kind of...):
chemical formula; formula (a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements)
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