Naming Acids

Alright wonderful people! If you haven't guessed, we're going to be learning about how to name acids!

Now because this is chemistry, and not computer virus class; I will not be teaching you how to corrupt files from 1992. BAD READERS.  BAD.

Acids are formed when a compound made of hydrogen ions and a negatively charged ion are dissolved in water. We call this state aqueous.

When acids are placed in water:

• Hydrogen combines with water
• Negatively charged ions dissolve in the water; separating them
• Hydrogen joins with water to form H₃o (an hydronium ion)

Here are basic guidelines to naming acids

meaning not EVERY acid is named this way, every rule has an exception

Simple Acids (group 16&17 of periodic table)

• use 'hydro' as your prefix
• this indicates that hydrogen is present
• last syllable of the non-metal is dropped
• the suffix 'ic' is used in it's place
• add the word 'acid' at the end
• _______ide --> hydro_______ic acid
• insert your ion into both blanks

Complex Acids 

• you do not use 'hydrogen' while naming complex acids
• your negative ion suffix will change according do its name
• ___ate is replaced with ____ic
• ___ite is replaced with ____ous
• add the word 'acid' at the end

-acids that end with 'ide' are considered simple-

Helpful Hint Honouring Hamish

Acronyms are extremely helpful when memorizing anything.

Here is one courtesy of a teacher:

we ate ic-y sushi and got appendic ite-ous.

chortle, chortle, it's so clever!

• the endings are together in this acronym, so it's pretty self explanatory.

If this post isn't clear enough; here is a website that can explain, and even has interactive excercises!

JY