Naming Covalent Compounds

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Naming Covalent Compounds

• Covalent Bond bonds formed from atoms sharing
  pairs of electrons
• NO charged particles / ions involved
• Sharing electrons between atoms
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• ? Each atom donates one electron to the shared
  pair

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Naming Covalent Compounds

• Binary Covalent Compounds ? 2 element compounds
• ? For two-element covalent compounds numerical
  prefixes are used to tell how many atoms of each
  element are contained in the compound.

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Naming Covalent Compounds

• 1. Write both element names
• 2. Add prefixes for both elements
• 3. For the second element only, drop the ending
  and add -ide
• 4. The first element never uses mono-

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• NO IONS and NO CHARGES
• Dodeca- 12