Mar 28 2019 4:06PM |
Normal |
Acknowledged |
cation then anion
ammonium NH4+
acetate C2H3O2-
ammonium acetate: NH4C2H3O2
You are not in kindergarten, why are you ALPHABETIZING molecular structures???? Like most chemical databases, we use Hill notation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_formula#Hill_system) for molecular formulae. The intention is simply to record the empirical formula, not to convey any structural information. |