There are systematic ways to name inorganic acids, however, for many acids no-one uses these systematic names because the "acid name...

Non-metallic elements combine to produce covalent compounds, that is, molecules in which the atoms are held together by covalent bonds. But...

You’ve probably heard of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite and gelignite. The commercialisation of these explosives enabled him to accu...

Organic chemistry deals with compounds of carbon. Inorganic chemistry deals with compounds of any other element. One of the earliest known...

How do you name a salt? There are several different ways to name salts (binary inorganic ionic compounds). The most common method used in ...

How do you write the formula of an anion? How do you use IUPAC nomenclature to name an anion? AUS-e-TUTE has new resources to help you und...

Naming chemical compounds can be a bit tricky. One of the biggest problems is that people started naming compounds before they understood wh...