专业英语-化合物命名.docVIP

NOMENCLATURE OF INORGANIC COMPOUNDS Mastering chemical nomenclature is little different from learning a new language, such as German. In order to understand the German scientific literature, you must, e.g. learn that the compound H2 is called Wasserstoff. English-speaking chemists call it hydrogen. Your task now is to memorize the names of enough compounds and become sufficiently familiar with the several systems of naming compounds that chemistry ceases to be a foreign language. The first thing to learn about naming chemical compounds is that there is usually more than one way to do it. We be