Final Thoughts about Nomenclature

The nomenclature unit was very beneficial to me. It taught me the basics of chemistry that I will be using all year long. Although the unit was pretty easy for me, I know that I will benefit greatly from this material. Knowing the polyatomic ions was probably the hardest part of the unit for me, but the result of knowing them will yield me great results in the future. Also, the Frontier Chemistry Project was along project. I learned a lot about native plants, but it took me forever to complete it. Procrastinating on the project was a terrible idea, and doing a majority of the project the night before it was due is not recommended. Writing out the information about all of the plants probably took the longest to complete, and the hardest part was finding all of the information throughout the book and on the internet. Overall, the Nomenclature unit was a great way to kick off the year.

First thing I learned in Nomenclature

The first thing that I learned in the Nomenclature unit was how to name Type I Binary compounds.  Type I compounds include both a metal cation and a nonmetal anion. The cation is always positively charged, and the anion is negatively charged. We learned the periodic table and how to classify the cations and anions. At first, I believed that this would be a tough unit, but it turned out to be relatively easy to name Type I compounds. There are only two elements in each compound, so the names tended to be obvious.