Naming Multivalent Metals
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How do you name a metal that has two different charges?
- For instance we know that iron has two different charges
- Fe2+ and Fe3+
- How do we specify which iron we are talking about in the name?
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Naming Continued
- to specifiy which form of iron, first writing the common name of the cation followed by its charge, represented by roman numerals in parentheses
- Ex) Fe2+ is called iron (II) and Fe3+ is called iron (III)
- Then you finish the name with all the normal rules we are used to with binary compounds and polyatomic ions.
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The Five Multivalent Metals
- copper
- Cu 1+ copper(I)
- Cu 2+ copper(II)
- iron
- Fe 2+ iron(II)
- Fe 3+ iron(III)
- mercury
- Hg2 2+ mercury(I)
- Hg 2+ mercury(II)
- lead
- Pb 2+ lead(II)
- Pb 4+ lead(IV)
- tin
- Sn 2+ tin(II)
- sn 4+ tin(IV)
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