Homework Help: chemistry

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 17, 2010 at 1:56am.

Suppose that "element A" has a valence number of 3 and"element B has a valencenumber of 2. If the two numbers combine,then when writing the formula for resulting in the compound what subscript number will be given to element "B

chemistry - DrBob222, Wednesday, November 17, 2010 at 11:58am
The formula will be A2B3
The two "numbers" don't combine; the two ELEMENTS combine.

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