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pyohex March 5th, 2006 06:33

Naming Substances
 
I'm a beginner in Chemistry and only recently have learnt 'Di' oxide means two oxygen and so forth. Anyway my problem is well basically sulfate, sulfite (as in I'm not entirely sure when you get a sulfate and when you get a sulfite) but my main problem is naming substances (mainly with brackets). For example Mg3(PO4)2, see for this I would say.... Trimagnesium Diphosphate. Can anyone tell me if this is correct. Another example is Al(OH)3, I'd say it's..... Aluminium Trihydroxide? Doesn't sound correct to me... I wish I understood this stuff. Can anyone help me? thanks

Lou1024 March 6th, 2006 17:50

Im not to sure on this...
But dont you change ate to ic and ite to ous?


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