Question

I have a question about naming molecular compounds

we usually add a ide in the ending for the second elelemtn but what if there is only one element
for example 03

would it be trioxygen or trioxide

Answer 1

So do I add the ide as the ending for oxygen if it is the only element or do i make a trioxygen

Answer 2

It would be Trioxide of ________ if you were talking about some compound

Answer 3

It is a compound with is self

Answer 4

three oxygens

Answer 5

Although, if you want to talk about \(\large \text{O}_3\), it would be trioxygen

Answer 6

yes 03,

Answer 7

So trioxygen would be correct

and for my previous post, it should be _____ trioxide, my bad.

Answer 8

So its tripxygen because there is only one compound right?

Answer 9

Yes, in this case we could simply call it ozone ;x

Answer 10

But say it was CO
then it would be carbon oxide right

Answer 11

Yes

Answer 12

Monoxide*

Answer 13

Just clarifying, for any compound that is with it self does not have the ending of ide but if it with a different compound then is does

Answer 14

Mono - 1
Di - 2
Tri - 3
Tetra - 4
Penta - 5

and so on.

Answer 15

yes

Answer 16

What do you mean?

Answer 17

So if an element is bonded with it self we dont add the ide but when its bonded with another we add the ide

Answer 18

Just for some on the elements, not all elements are like this

Answer 19

It's just a language thing, we add the ide because gen doesn't sound right sometimes

Answer 20

n2 would be dinitrogen right?

Answer 21

Yep

Answer 22

Thank You!

Answer 23

Welcome! :)

Answer 24

There's a modern trend to naming allotropes of elements where there are identifiable molecules as if they were compounds, hence O2 is "dioxygen" and N2 is "dinitrogen" and so forth.

But few chemists actually use those names. To most working chemists, O2 is "oxygen" and N2 is "nitrogen," because that's how the elements naturally occur. If you actually had some O you would call it "atomic oxygen" or something like that, because it's a rare and strange beast.

It also runs into a little trouble with some elements, e.g. sulfur naturally occurs as S8 and phosphorus as P4, and saying "octasulfur" and "tetraphosphorus" sounds...well, strange. Then we get into the fact that one of the allotropes of carbon is C60....