• @chuckleslord
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    82 months ago

    Complete tangent, but I don’t think superscript numbers are a good choice in chemical notation. You’re trying to use them here to stand-in for subscript numbers, but superscript numbers have a meaning in chemistry as well. They denote ions.

    So, I think CO2 is more accurate than CO², since it could be confused as carbon monoxide with some sort of ion of charge 2 (unclear of positive or negative).

    • @[email protected]
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      62 months ago

      I think Jerboa can do subscript

      CO2

      Yup, looks right for me. It’s a single tilde on both sides of the 2.

      • @stetech
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        52 months ago

        There’s a unicode character for it, meaning every decently modern form of text input should support it: CO₂

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      That’s a good point. My phone keyboard has the superscript so I used that without thinking too much