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Does anyone know of a chemical compound etc ending in 08.
Presumably you mean Oxygen and O
8.
May seem like strange question but it would be really useful to know!
It depends on the conventions arbitrarily used to write down the "formulas" for molecules. One could choose to start with the atom closest to the beginning of the periodic chart and list the total of each atom as you go, and thus you only need a molecule with 8 oxygens in it - should be relatively easy to find.
The conventions used for organic chemistry group commonly occurring patterns of molecules and then counts the repetitions of those patterns and counts them independent of the same atoms occurring elsewhere, hence CHOOH as oppossed to CH
2O
2
See
Amino acid - Wikipediaand
Folate - Wikipedia
for a couple of examples.
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