chemical formula element definition
A chemical formula is a way of expressing information about the proportions of atoms that constitute a particular chemical compound, using a single line of chemical element symbols, numbers, and sometimes also other symbols, such as parentheses, dashes, brackets, commas and plus (+) and minus (â) signs.tructural formula for butane. This is not a chemical formula. Examples of chemical formulas for butane are the empirical formula C 2 H 5, the molecular formula C 4 H 10 and the condensed (or semi-structural) formula CH 3 CH 2 CH 2 CH 3.