
Watch Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemical Compounds - School Movie on Chemistry
- 2016
- 9 hr
The names of compounds are made up of the names of the elements plus a multiplying affix and a suffix. Each name may only refer to one specific substance. Conversely, a chemical compound may have several names and many substances have traditional and trivial names in addition to their modern chemical name. This film explains the naming system of inorganic compounds in an entertaining way.