A certain compound is made up of one phosphorus (P) atom, three chlorine (Cl) atoms, and one oxygen (O) atom. What is the chemical formula of this compound?

Verified Answer :

PCl3O is composed of 1 atom of phosphorus (P), 3
chlorine (Cl) atoms, and 1 oxygen (O) atom. PCl3O is called. Phosphoruschloride
oxide.


Chemical Formula is not a chemical name. It is a way of showing details or
information about the proportion of atoms that compose a certain chemical
compound, using a single line  of chemical element symbols,  numbers,
and sometimes also other symbols, such as dashes, parentheses, commas,  plus
(+) and minus (-).

Other examples of chemical formula:

Glucose is C6H12O6