Why is an antibody molecule represented as $H_2I_2$ ?

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Each antibody molecule is made of the two heavy chains $\left(\mathrm{H}_{2}\right.$ ) and two light chains $\left(\mathrm{L}_{2}\right.$ ), hence represented as $\mathrm{H}_{2} \mathrm{~L}_{2}$

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