Nomenclature of ionic compounds

The cations formed as shown by the half-reactions above are simply given the names of the metals that produced them, such as sodium for Na+ and calcium for Ca +. Since they consist of only one element, the name for each anion has an -ide ending, that is, hP", nitride CP , oxide S , sulfide H , hydride F, fluoride and Cl , chloride. An advantage in the nomenclature of ionic compounds is that it is not usually necessary to use prefixes to specify the numbers of each kind of ion in a formula unit. This is because the charges on the ions determine the relative numbers of each, as shown by the examples in Table 4.3. 

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