When using chemical formula it is possible to calculate the percentage composition of the chemical. This can be useful when extracting metals from ores or when making fertilisers for specific plants.

A multi-institutional team has directly observed electron hopping in iron oxide particles, a phenomenon that holds huge significance for a broad range of environment- and energy-related applications.

Balanced equations are used to allow chemists to calculate how much product they will produce from their reactants. The co-efficients in balanced equations represent the number of moles reacting and ...