Category:Set index articles on molecular formulas

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Pages in this category are normally organic compounds, and are arranged overall in order of increasing numbers of carbon atoms:

#Cs	Group
1	1
2	2
3	3
4	4
5	5
6	6
7	7
8	8
9	9
10-15	A
16-19	B
20-29	D
> 29	E

Within groups having the same carbon count, the order is fairly intuitive, but the following exceptions have been noted:

C₂H₅N₃O₂ precedes C₂H₅NO₂
C₂H₆O₄S precedes C₂H₆OS

This always pops up when only one atom of a kind is present: that entry will appear at the bottom of the list below all the others. For the same reason you will find C10H.... preceding C2H..... .

The situation arises as the sorting algorithm is based on the ASCII code of letters and numbers. As numbers have lower codes than letters, this counterintuitive situation arises.

Index: * A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Carbon C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9

Pages in category "Set index articles on molecular formulas"

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BaSO4
BrO

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