Chemistry formulas A2

Came across a past paper using a chemical called ferrate and I had no clue what chemical it meant , I know the formula for it now I've googled it but does anyone have a list of other names for chemical compounds we are expected to know for the exam? Any help appreciated.

That's quite a buff complex ion you know.

Is there any way of working it out in exams , chemical names are such a big weakness of mine.

Give me an example?

Aqueous sodium ferrate(VI) is a very powerful oxidising agent. (i) predict what you would see when aqueous sodium ferrate(VI) is added to aqueous potassium iodide. Explain your answer.

Not a clue mate, what exam board is this?

I am with you on that, OCR

Came across a past paper using a chemical called ferrate and I had no clue what chemical it meant , I know the formula for it now I've googled it but does anyone have a list of other names for chemical compounds we are expected to know for the exam? Any help appreciated.

Salters? or OCR-A?

you are unlikely to run into anything TOO foreign; you could have worked out what "ferrate" means by the general knowledge you're expected to have that ferrate is the latin (I think) for iron. similarly, copper ions can be "cuprate", lead "plumbate", chromium "chromate"..

notice the clues in the shortened names of elements in the periodic table. Iron is "Fe", therefore "ferrate" or "ferrous" refers to iron. Lead is "Pb", hence "plumbate".

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Aqueous sodium ferrate(VI) is a very powerful oxidising agent. (i) predict what you would see when aqueous sodium ferrate(VI) is added to aqueous potassium iodide. Explain your answer.

you are unlikely to run into anything TOO foreign; you could have worked out what "ferrate" means by the general knowledge you're expected to have that ferrate is the latin (I think) for iron. similarly, copper ions can be "cuprate", lead "plumbate", chromium "chromate"..

notice the clues in the shortened names of elements in the periodic table. Iron is "Fe", therefore "ferrate" or "ferrous" refers to iron. Lead is "Pb", hence "plumbate".

hmm never heard of ferrate before but halides are used as reducing agents and iodine is the strongest reducing agent out of the lot so i would expect a powerful oxidising agent to oxidise the I^- ion to I₂ Which has a black/brown colour i think (theres prob more visible stuff that i cant remember)

Ahh that makes so much sense! I'm so grateful , I've just found out ate means an oxidation number greater and ite means an oxidation number lesser and nitrate is +5 whereas nitrogen is +3 , so I'm guessing ate/ite are just vague terms?

AH same man, I haven't even fully looked at transition metals yet, Im really sorry i couldn't help you out!

Are you by any chance resitting any paper for chem?

Glad it helped, I should also specify sorry that the latin for iron is "ferrum" so "ferrate" just refers to an iron ion-complex containing oxygen. More examples of ion names are stannate (tin; notice it's labelled Sn on the periodic table), aurate (gold; Au), and argentate (silver; Ag).

As far as I'm aware, this usually applies to negatively charged ion complexes only, not positive ones.

Ahh is it possible that we're able to presume if a chemical name ends in "ate" it's bonded to oxygen or is that too presumptuous?

Ahh is it possible that we're able to presume if a chemical name ends in "ate" it's bonded to oxygen or is that too presumptuous?