Question

What is the name of the ionic compound formed from lithium and bromine?

Why is the answer lithium bromide? What is the indicator that this is the correct name, rather than lithium bromate? Is this because a compound would need to contain 3 different atoms and oxygen to have the name lithium bromate? Is that why NaNO3 is Sodium Nitrate?

Answer 1

The answer is lithium bromide because it is the combination of a metal (lithium) and a nonmetal (bromine). The indicator that this is the correct name, rather than lithium bromate, is that the compound is composed of only two elements and does not contain oxygen. Yes, this is why NaNO3 is Sodium Nitrate; it is composed of three different elements (sodium, nitrogen, and oxygen).

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