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supernova1203
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So i was doing my school work earlier and i had trouble wrapping my head around this particular topic, even though i was able to finish all of it correctly, i want to make sure it sinks it well so i once again decided to approach these forums :)
We were naming Ionic compounds, specifically with transition metals in them, and i learned that transition metals have different valences, for example Iron (Fe) has a valence of either +2 or +3...
So depending on which valence the Iron has we use roman numerals to write them
Iron (III)bla bla(not a real element)
Also sometimes the valences are canceled out before they are written in forumla form
for example for arguments sake make up a random element, that has a valence of 4, and another element has a valence of 2
here, they factor out the numbers and one of the elements is written with a 2(since 2 goes into 4 2 times) and one is written with a 1(invisible)
so the compound is blabla2(bla)--->second element in the compound
My question is, all that stuff is it accurate? or am i wrong about the concept of this?
(sorry i couldn't be clearer, just writing this as it comes to me)
in other words does it make sense?
We were naming Ionic compounds, specifically with transition metals in them, and i learned that transition metals have different valences, for example Iron (Fe) has a valence of either +2 or +3...
So depending on which valence the Iron has we use roman numerals to write them
Iron (III)bla bla(not a real element)
Also sometimes the valences are canceled out before they are written in forumla form
for example for arguments sake make up a random element, that has a valence of 4, and another element has a valence of 2
here, they factor out the numbers and one of the elements is written with a 2(since 2 goes into 4 2 times) and one is written with a 1(invisible)
so the compound is blabla2(bla)--->second element in the compound
My question is, all that stuff is it accurate? or am i wrong about the concept of this?
(sorry i couldn't be clearer, just writing this as it comes to me)
in other words does it make sense?
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