Chemistry: Atoms First
3rd Edition
ISBN: 9781259638138
Author: Julia Burdge, Jason Overby Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 1, Problem 1.24QP
Express the following numbers in scientific notation:
(a) 0.000000027
(b) 356
(c) 47,764
(d) 0.096
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Chapter 1 Solutions
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