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The term molecule may or may not be used to refer to a polyatomic ion, depending on the definition used. The prefix poly-carries the meaning "many" in Greek, but even ions of two atoms are commonly described as polyatomic. [2] In older literature, a polyatomic ion may instead be referred to as a radical (or less commonly, as a radical group).
The names "caffeine" and "3,7-dihydro-1,3,7-trimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione" both signify the same chemical compound.The systematic name encodes the structure and composition of the caffeine molecule in some detail, and provides an unambiguous reference to this compound, whereas the name "caffeine" simply names it.
The phosphite ion, PO 3− 3, is a strong base, and so always carries at least one proton. In this case the proton is attached directly to the phosphorus atom with the structure HPO 2− 3 . In forming this ion, the phosphite ion is behaving as a Lewis base and donating a pair of electrons to the Lewis acid, H + .
Polyhalogen ions are a group of polyatomic cations and anions containing halogens only. The ions can be classified into two classes, isopolyhalogen ions which contain one type of halogen only, and heteropolyhalogen ions with more than one type of halogen.
5 v 4 o 4− 12 + 12 h + → 2 v 10 o 26 (oh) 4− 2 + 4 h 2 o When such acidifications are conducted in the presence of phosphate or silicate , heteropolymetalate result. For example, the phosphotungstate anion [PW 12 O 40 ] 3− consists of a framework of twelve octahedral tungsten oxyanions surrounding a central phosphate group.
The existence of the metal–metal bond in Hg(I) compounds was established using X-ray studies in 1927 [2] [page needed] and Raman spectroscopy in 1934 [3] making it one of the earliest, if not the first, metal–metal covalent bonds to be characterised. Other mercury polycations are the linear Hg 2+ 3 and Hg 2+ 4 ions, [3] and the triangular Hg 4+
[2] [3] Oxygen atoms are joined to each other and to adjacent elements through single covalent bonds, denoted by dashes or lines. The O−O group in a peroxide is often called the peroxide group, though some nomenclature discrepancies exist. This linkage is recognized as a common polyatomic ion, and exists in many molecules.
Structure of the orthosilicate anion SiO 4− 4. A silicate is any member of a family of polyatomic anions consisting of silicon and oxygen, usually with the general formula [SiO (4-2x)− 4−x] n, where 0 ≤ x < 2. The family includes orthosilicate SiO 4− 4 (x = 0), metasilicate SiO 2− 3 (x = 1), and pyrosilicate Si 2 O 6− 7 (x = 0.5 ...