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Chemistry Forums for Students => Undergraduate General Chemistry Forum => Topic started by: fligex on February 21, 2012, 09:15:29 PM

Title: Why does the bisulfate ion have 4 Oxygen atoms?
Post by: fligex on February 21, 2012, 09:15:29 PM

Hi all, complete noob here as you might expect from my post title.

I'm doing some homework and one of the questions I'm asked is to write
the formulas for a list of ions they give.

I can't seem to wrap my head around how to figure that out. Hopefully someone can help.

I thought I understood it after doing the Hydroxide ion formula OH- but the same conclusions didn't
apply once I reached the bisulfate ion. I'm dying here.

Thanks for you tips!

Title: Re: Why does the bisulfate ion have 4 Oxygen atoms?
Post by: AWK on February 22, 2012, 01:01:01 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inorganic_nomenclature
see rule 5 under system