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In this Ca SO4.1/2 (H2O ) how a molecule of water can be divide into half?

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In plaster of paris two formula units of CaSO4 share one molecule of water.
In the formula it is written as half water molecule because in the formula we are showing only one unit of CaSO4.
Hence Written as 1/2 for one unit of CaSO4

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