Name: Brian Aguilar

Date: 11/28/21

WORKSHEET
1. Chemical formulas can have three components.
a) The element symbols which are represented by a single uppercase letter, or represented by an
uppercase letter followed by a lowercase letter. This tells you the types of elements in the compound.
b) The subscripts which are numbers that are found on the lower right- hand side of each element
symbol. This tells you the number of atoms of this element in the molecule. If an element symbol has
no subscript next to it, then this indicates that there is only one atom of this element in the molecule.
c) The brackets which surround some groups of atoms indicate that the numbers of all of the atoms
inside the bracket need to be multiplied by the subscript on the outside of the bracket found on the
lower right - hand side of that bracket.

2. Record the number of each atom in each molecule, then record the total number of atoms in the molecule:

1) NaOH 2) HNO3 3) Li2O

Element # of Atoms Element # of Atoms Element # of Atoms
Na 1 H 1 U 2
O 1 N 1 O 1
H 1 O 3
Total 3 Total 5 Total 3
4) Li2SO4 5) NH4Cl 6) CaClO3
Element # of Atoms Element # of Atoms Element # of Atoms
Li 2 N 1 Ca 1
S 1 H 4 Cl 1
O 4 Cl 1 O 3
Total 7 Total 6 Total 5
7) H2COCH2 8) Mg(OH)2 9) Al(OH)3
Element # of Atoms Element # of Atoms Element # of Atoms
H 4 Mg 1 Al 1
C 2 O 2 O 3
O 1 H 2 H 3
Total 7 Total 5 Total 7
10) NH4C2H3O2 11) NaC2H3O2 12) (NH4)3PO4
Element # of Atoms Element # of Atoms Element # of Atoms
N 1 Na 1 N 3
H 7 C 2 H 12
C 2 H 3 P 1
O 2 O 2 P 4
Total 12 Total 8 Total 20
13) Ca3(PO4)2 14) Fe2(CO3)3 15) Al2(SO3)3
Element # of Atoms Element # of Atoms Element # of Atoms
Ca 3 Fe 2 Al 2
P 2 C 3 S 3
O 8 O 9 O 9
Total 13 Total 14 Total 14

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