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ORDINARY NOMENCLATURE

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By Josh Demaree
Beech Grove High School
Beech Grove, IN

Compounds must be named.
Do you know how? It's a game.
Split your compounds name by name.
Separate them frame by frame.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It's ordinary nomenclature.
Metals name it. Don't forget the end.
Transitions use the numerals then.

Nonmetlas use prefixes.
Di, tri or whatever it says.
On and on the cycle goes,
Where it stops, nobody knows.

KCl. There's a name.
Potassium chloride. It's all the same.
Fe2O3
Iron (III) oxide, my, oh me!

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It's ordinary nomenclature.
CO2 a useful gas.
Carbon dioxide's full of class.

Carbon is a nonmetal.
Just in case you didn't know.
On and on the cycle goes.
Where it stops, nobody knows.

It's ordinary Nomenclature.

Nomenclature.