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What is wrong with using chemical formulas or abbreviations?

April 26, 2017chemical formulas wrong

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What is wrong with using chemical formulas or abbreviations?

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While chemical formulas and abbreviations can be a useful shorthand version for some tasks, we ask that you write out the full chemical name. Not everyone uses the same abbreviations for the same chemicals. In addition, we are not all chemists and may not decipher chemical formulas properly. Also, the lives of our data entry people are made easier when full chemical names are written out legibly. Thank you.