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What is the formally correct notation of t-Bu, i-Pr, p-NO2, n-Bu, a-HCl, etc.?

In chemical notation, can I safely assume that the notation of a single lower-case latin character followed by a hyphen followed by an Element upper-case latin character (and possibly more characters)...
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How to distinguish mass concentration and density?

I am writing a proof where I have to mention both with density and of a material and mass concentration (mass/volume) of a material. I am using the letter $\rho$ to represent density, and I didn't ...
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