While writing a chemical formula of a compound, cation is written on left.

True

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Solution

The correct option is A True
Chemical formula: A chemical formula employs symbols to denote the element or a compound present.
While writing the formula of an ionic compound having a metal and a non-metal.
Metal form cation and non-metal form anion. The name or symbol of the cation is written first on left. Whereas non-metals are written on the right.
For example, the chemical formula of Sodium Chloride is $NaCl$ .
Thus, the given statement is True. i.e., While writing a chemical formula of a compound, the cation is written on left.

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