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How does using a common naming system for chemical compounds benefit scientists?
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∙ 7y ago
It helps scientists to understand what kind of a compound they're dealing with.
Easy example: Alcohols. The name of every alcohol that exists ends in "-ol." Some alcohols, like methanol, make that easy: the formula has an OH group, there's some carbon there so we're not dealing with a hydroxide...alcohol! Try Pentaerythritol - which has FOUR OH groups on it (and features one of the more entertaining Lewis structures you're likely to find...). This little monster's formula is C5H12O4. If you didn't have the Lewis structure sitting in front of you, there's nothing in that formula to suggest it's an alcohol much less the complex alcohol that it is. But you see the "ol" in its name..."oh, okay, that's what it is."
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