Many familiar substances have common, unsystematic
names. For ea...

Question

Many familiar substances have common, unsystematic 
names. For each of the following, give the correct systematic 
name: (d) muriatic acid, HCl

Accepted Answer

Hey everyone, our question here is asking us to provide the correct acid name for vinegar. And we know that when we have an acid, we typically have an H plus plus our an ion and in this case it's going to be a church three c +00 minus. And we can recognize that this is our acetate ion. And since we have the ending of a. T, this means we're going to have to change that ending into I see per our naming rules. So the name of our acid is going to be acetic acid and this is going to be our final answer. So I hope that made sense. And let us know if you have any questions.

Many familiar substances have common, unsystematic names. For each of the following, give the correct systematic name: (d) muriatic acid, HCl

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