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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Deepblue on April 24, 2005, 11:51:33 pm

Title: Quick Homework Help.
Post by: Deepblue on April 24, 2005, 11:51:33 pm

Can someone tell me what the chemical names of gasoline, nitrates, and arsenic are?

Thanks.

Title: Quick Homework Help.
Post by: Deepblue on April 25, 2005, 12:05:20 am

Please??? :D

Title: Quick Homework Help.
Post by: Sandwich on April 25, 2005, 12:07:10 am

Google and Wikipedia can't help?

Title: Quick Homework Help.
Post by: Deepblue on April 25, 2005, 12:10:12 am

I googled define: gasoline and am getting nothing on the chemical name. The others I haven't tried yet.

Oh, and I can only use .edu and .gov sources, so I can't use Wikipedia.

Title: Quick Homework Help.
Post by: Jetmech Jr. on April 25, 2005, 12:14:12 am

Just use Wiki and make up a .edu site. I doubt they'll check.

And if they do, you can't find me.

Title: Quick Homework Help.
Post by: Deepblue on April 25, 2005, 12:15:53 am

It checks, I have to put it on Turnitin.com.

Duh, idiot! Arsenic IS the chemical name for itself *smacks self*.

Still need gasoline and nitrates though...

Title: Quick Homework Help.
Post by: Jetmech Jr. on April 25, 2005, 12:19:22 am

gas-on-line...hmm.

Title: Quick Homework Help.
Post by: Jetmech Jr. on April 25, 2005, 12:20:18 am

Quote

Originally posted by Deepblue

Oh, and I can only use .edu and .gov sources, so I can't use Wikipedia.

Ok...so who's named .edu or .gov around here?

Is it Petrol, or Petroleum?

Title: Quick Homework Help.
Post by: Deepblue on April 25, 2005, 12:33:39 am

Petrol.

Title: Quick Homework Help.
Post by: Mongoose on April 25, 2005, 01:17:47 am

If you're talking about a specific chemical nomenclature, gasoline is a mixture of different hydrocarbon compounds, so there isn't one specific chemical name for it.  Petroleum is the general name for a group of products that includes gasoline.  As for nitrates, that's a whole category of compounds (if I remember my junior-year chem class correctly), not a specific chemical, so again, there isn't one specific name that I could think of.  I do know that they'd all share the ionic group -N03.  Unless I've gotten really rusty, the questions you were given don't make much sense the way they are written.

Title: Quick Homework Help.
Post by: Deepblue on April 25, 2005, 01:30:36 am

Meh, no they don't.

Title: Quick Homework Help.
Post by: karajorma on April 25, 2005, 04:36:32 am

Mongoose is dead on the money there :yes: