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have mercy with the following statement ... but considering the contributions of both answerers and commentators, and this lively discussion, I must say, I don't feel very comfortable when KudoZians help promptly and give advice to someone who has not taken a few minutes to just provide some personal or job details. :-(
Btw, I have just noticed that this question was asked under the category of Advertising / Public Relations. For this kind of texts, I think the full name carbon dioxide should be spelt out.
Edith, in NO way did I insult YOU or imply that you did not know chemistry. I said that I found it difficult for a person doing that job did not know anything regarding CO2. Please, by the nature of the question, I think the asker is empirical, not everyone is a chemist or took chemistry in higher levels of school but I remember Carbon Dioxide since I was in 3rd grade.
I fully agree with you. I simply answered to Jose's remark that I "have no knowledge of carbon dioxide or its chemical formula" which is - IMO - a slight insult, and you do not need to be a chemist to answer that question.l
Let's let the asker decide for himself/herself which is the answer he/she is asking for. If he/she is writing a report for public circulation, to me, the full name of CO2 (carbon dioxide) should be spelt out. If he/she is seeking the way to write the chemical formula, you are of course right. From what I see, there's no clear indication in the question that he/she is seeking the way to write the chemical formula (although that could have been the case). He/she may just want to know which is the correct/appropriate way of writing.
Besides, there's no need to be a chemist to know how to write the chemical formula CO2. Anyone who has studied Chemistry in school will know that--you don't need to study Advanced Chemistry to know how to write CO2.
Chemistry happens to be one of my specialities, and it is mostly wirtten capitalised CO plus subscript 2. It is also written carbon dioxide, I agree with you, but this was not the question.
You are entitled to disagree with me but I find it very difficult for someone that has no knowledge of Carbon Dioxide or its chemical formula to be writing about it. C'mon, and this with all respect to you and the asker, is water water or H2O or H subscript2 O, or Hydrogen subscript two Oxygen ...or what? Please let's not get carried away in inventing the wheel...possibly the question was not properly formulated and maybe, just maybe my answer is wrong.
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co2
carbon dioxide
Explanation: Basic chemistry
José J. Martínez United States Local time: 18:34 Works in field Native speaker of: English, Spanish