Category:Set index articles on molecular formulas

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Pages in this category are normally organic compounds, and are arranged overall in order of increasing numbers of carbon atoms:

Within groups having the same carbon count, the order is fairly intuitive, but the following exceptions have been noted: This always pops up when only one atom of a kind is present: that entry will appear at the bottom of the list below all the others. For the same reason you will find C10H.... preceding C2H..... .
 * C2H5N3O2 precedes C2H5NO2
 * C2H6O4S precedes C2H6OS

The situation arises as the sorting algorithm is based on the ASCII code of letters and numbers. As numbers have lower codes than letters, this counterintuitive situation arises.