The easy answer is, there is no chemical formula for orange juice. Your favorite liquid sunshine is a mixture, which chemists define as a combination of at least two substances. Each of these substances retains its own chemical identity when it gets mixed up with the other components.
What is the chemical equation for orange juice?
Orange juice is a mixture of many things, most of all water, sugar, and citric acid. You probably know the chemical formula for water: H20. The H indicates two atoms of hydrogen and the O represents one atom of oxygen. The combination, which is also called a molecular formula, equals one molecule of water. Table sugar looks like this in formula form: C12H22O11 (carbon-hydrogen-oxygen), and citric acid appears as C6H807.
So, do you think air has a molecular formula? Like orange juice, air is a mixture. The basic component of air is nitrogen (about 78%), with smaller measures of oxygen, argon, and carbon dioxide. A smidgen of other gases make up the air around you, including neon, methane, ozone, ammonia, carbon monoxide, helium, nitrous oxide, and krypton — something to think about as you sit back and enjoy an early morning glass of formula-free OJ!