the symbol for oxygen is - O then why we represent oxygen as O2

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Oxygen alone is a very reactive species as it has unpaired electron and tries to get its electron paired up by combining with other oxygen atom and form stable diatomic oxygen molecule.thus it has the formula O₂.

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