In the old days compounds had common names like: water, milk of magnesia, gypsum,
quicklime, etc.
Today we know of over 4 million compounds. Common
names wont work
names wont work
Therefore we have a system!
First we will learn about
binary compounds, compounds made of two elements
binary compounds, compounds made of two elements
There are two classes:
1) metal/nonmetal
2) nonmetal/nonmetal
