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Can we extend mhchem support in MathJax to include physical units?
I support this request: Worldbuilding users can benefit from having mhchem enabled.

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How do I write dollar signs ($) in posts without messing up the text formatting?
The formatting is MathJax and is pretty useful for complex math. If you want to use a normal dollar sign you have to "escape" the symbol. This means that you tell the interpreter "You know, the ...
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MathJax and Pending Edits
I don't have any such edit to look at immediately, so I'm going from memory here. Please excuse any inaccuracies.
There are different "views" of posts in the review queues. Particularly, there is a ...
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Can we extend mhchem support in MathJax to include physical units?
I've enabled this as of an hour ago (26 April 2022) Adam said it should be fine but if you run into any issues, let me know and we'll disable it and investigate what's going on.
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How to get mathjax to display double digit or negative power to values?
L.Dutch already told you to use curly braces ({}) around the number. So you'd write x^{15} to get $x^{15}$.
This applies more ...
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How to get mathjax to display double digit or negative power to values?
Use {...} to input more than 1 character.
$3^{15}$ will be given by 3^{15}

L.DutchMod
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Units in MathJax markup
Use \text{}.
This MathJaX code:
1 \times 10^{23} kg
produces this output:
$ 1 \times 10^{23} kg $
By wrapping the ...
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Cookbook and Sandbox for mathjax
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Other answers are for sandbox experimentation and discussion. The only way to see what we’re doing is in a post. It doesn’t look the same in comments or a chat room.
vector with subscript ...
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