What does shorthand notation mean?
1 Answer
Apr 26, 2017
It's when you get lazy and decide to write abbreviations for what you're actually meaning.
Some examples:
- Aluminum
->→ "Al"Al - "with respect to"
->→ "w.r.t."w.r.t. - Journal of Chemical Physics
->→ "J. Chem. Phys."J. Chem. Phys. - Chromium(III) cation
->→ "Cr"^(3+)Cr3+ , or"Cr"("III")Cr(III)
You could also mean noble gas shorthand electron configurations:
stackrel(Ne)overbrace(color(red)(1s^2 2s^2 2p^6)) 3s^2 = color(red)([Ne])3s^2
(magnesium configuration)
stackrel(Ar)overbrace(color(red)(1s^2 2s^2 2p^6 3s^2 3p^6)) 4s^1 3d^10 = color(red)([Ar])4s^1 3d^10
(copper configuration)
etc.
