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What do parentheses mean in chemical formulas?
It indicates that there are a certain number of atoms in a compound.
For example:
##Al_2(SO_4)_3##
This shows that there are three times the number of atoms which are in the brackets:
S - 1 x 3 = 3 atoms O - 4 x 3 = 12 atoms
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