This flowchart will tell you whether you need to use prefixes, Roman Numerals, or neither when you're naming compounds in Chemistry.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Polyatomic!
(prefix: Y
RN's: maybe)
|
YES
|
Are there more than two different elements?
|
NO
|
Do you have any metals?
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
YES
|
|
NO
|
|
| |
| |
|
Do you have a transition metal?
|
| |
|
Covalent!
(prefix: Y
RN's: N)
|
|
|
|
YES
|
|
NO
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Binary Ionic w/ Transition Metal!
(prefix: N
RN's: Y)
|
| |
|
Binary Ionic!
(prefix: N
RN's: N)
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Naming Compounds
