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What do Chemists See When they Look at Chemicals? WorksheetWhat do Chemists See When they Look at Chemicals? Worksheet
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What do Chemists See When they Look at Chemicals?

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In this naming chemicals learning exercise, students indicate the prefixes for naming compounds. They fill in a chart with the chemical names and formulas for alkanes. They draw the structural and molecular formula for propane and they draw and name the isomers of hexane.

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molecular formulas, molecules, alkanes, structural formulas

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alkanes, molecular formulas, structural formulas, science
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9th - 12th
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Science
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