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This section on symbols in chemistry opens with a list of some of the subscripts and superscripts used. They should be in roman (upright) type, in general, but italicized if they refer to quantities, whose symbols are themselves written in italics.
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Kotyk, A. (1999). Chemistry and Biology. In: Quantities, Symbols, Units, and Abbreviations in the Life Sciences. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-206-7_4
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