{"id":2064,"date":"2024-03-04T17:13:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T17:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2024-03-04T17:13:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T17:13:20","slug":"inorganic-compound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/04\/inorganic-compound\/","title":{"rendered":"inorganic compound"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Inorganic compound<\/strong>, any substance in which two or more\u00a0chemical elements\u00a0(usually other than\u00a0carbon) are combined, nearly always in definite proportions.\u00a0Compounds\u00a0of carbon are classified as organic when carbon is bound to hydrogen. Carbon compounds such as\u00a0carbides\u00a0(e.g.,\u00a0silicon carbide\u00a0[SiC2<\/sub>]), some\u00a0carbonates\u00a0(e.g.,\u00a0calcium carbonate\u00a0[CaCO3<\/sub>]), some cyanides (e.g.,\u00a0sodium\u00a0cyanide\u00a0[NaCN]),\u00a0graphite,\u00a0carbon dioxide, and\u00a0carbon monoxide\u00a0are classified as inorganic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read about the differences between inorganic compounds and\u00a0organic compounds\u00a0in the article\u00a0chemical compound.<\/em>More From Britannicachemical compound: Inorganic compounds<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inorganic compounds include compounds that are made up of two or more elements other than carbon, as well as certain carbon-containing compounds that lack carbon-carbon bonds, such as cyanides and carbonates. Inorganic compounds are most often classified in terms of the elements or groups of elements that they contain. Oxides, for example, can be either ionic or molecular. Ionic oxides contain O2\u2212<\/sup>\u00a0(oxide)\u00a0ions\u00a0and metal cations, whereas molecular oxides contain molecules in which oxygen (O) is covalently bonded to other nonmetals such as sulfur (S) or nitrogen (N). When ionic oxides are dissolved in\u00a0water, the O2\u2212<\/sup>\u00a0ions react with water molecules to form\u00a0hydroxide\u00a0ions (OH\u2212<\/sup>), and a basic solution results. Molecular oxides react with water to produce oxyacids, such as\u00a0sulfuric acid\u00a0(H2<\/sub>SO4<\/sub>) and\u00a0nitric acid\u00a0(HNO3<\/sub>). In addition, inorganic compounds include hydrides (containing hydrogen atoms or H\u2212<\/sup>\u00a0ions), nitrides (containing N3\u2212<\/sup>\u00a0ions), phosphides (containing P3\u2212<\/sup>\u00a0ions), and sulfides (containing\u00a0S<\/a>2\u2212<\/sup>\u00a0ions).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transition\u00a0metals form a great variety of inorganic compounds. The most important of these are coordination compounds in which the metal atom or ion is surrounded by two to six ligands. Ligands are ions or neutral molecules with electron pairs that they can donate to the metal atom to form a coordinate-covalent bond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The resulting\u00a0covalent bond\u00a0is given a special name because one entity (the ligand) furnishes both of the electrons that are subsequently shared in the bond. An example of a\u00a0coordination compound\u00a0is [Co(NH3<\/sub>)6<\/sub>]Cl3<\/sub>, which contains the Co(NH3<\/sub>)6<\/sub>3+<\/sup>\u00a0ion, a cobalt ion (Co3+<\/sup>) with six\u00a0ammonia\u00a0molecules (NH3<\/sub>) attached to it, acting as ligands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the early days of the\u00a0science\u00a0of\u00a0chemistry, there was no systematic approach to naming compounds. Chemists coined names such as sugar of lead,\u00a0quicklime, milk of magnesia, Epsom salts, and\u00a0laughing gas\u00a0to describe familiar compounds. Such names are called common or trivial names. As chemistry advanced, it became evident that, if common names were used for all known compounds, which number in the millions, great confusion would result. It clearly would be impossible to memorize trivial names for such a large number of compounds. Therefore a systematic\u00a0nomenclature\u00a0(naming process) has been developed. There are, however, certain familiar compounds that are always referred to by their common names. The systematic names for H2<\/sub>O and NH3<\/sub>, for example, are never used; these vital compounds are known only as water and ammonia, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The simplest chemical compounds are binary compounds\u2014those consisting of two elements. Different rules apply for the nomenclature of binary ionic compounds and binary molecular (covalent) compounds, and so they will be considered separately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inorganic compound, any substance in which two or more\u00a0chemical elements\u00a0(usually other than\u00a0carbon) are combined, nearly always in definite proportions.\u00a0Compounds\u00a0of carbon are classified as organic when carbon is bound to hydrogen. Carbon compounds such as\u00a0carbides\u00a0(e.g.,\u00a0silicon carbide\u00a0[SiC2]), some\u00a0carbonates\u00a0(e.g.,\u00a0calcium carbonate\u00a0[CaCO3]), some cyanides (e.g.,\u00a0sodium\u00a0cyanide\u00a0[NaCN]),\u00a0graphite,\u00a0carbon dioxide, and\u00a0carbon monoxide\u00a0are classified as inorganic. Read about the differences between inorganic compounds and\u00a0organic compounds\u00a0in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inorganic-compounds"],"Cooking_time":"","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions\/2065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}