Today I am going to tell you about Chemical Names. When we think about Chemical Names what comes in our mind? The first thing that comes in our mind is chemistry. Yes it's true that it is very much or fully related to chemistry.

Every living thing on the earth is made up of cells. These cells are further made up of elements which are further made up of molecules. These molecules are made up of atoms. As we all know every atom can be further can be classified into sub molecular particles. It is not only in case of living things. The same thing is true for nonliving things. So we finally see that every living as well as nonlivingthingis made up of compounds. But in general when we talk about anything we say their Chemical Names which is also the topic of today. On the earth about ninety percent of the things are organic. Organic elements are basically made up of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms.There can be many compounds that can be formed with these atoms. But have we ever thought how you can remember those compounds. Yes it is very difficult if you are asked to remember there structural forms. In order to reduce the effort and to remember those compounds in an organized manner we have developed a method by which we can classify those chemicals by their Chemical Names. It is used everywhere on the earth. We can identify chemicals by their Chemical Names. Before getting into the Chemical Names we have to understand their basic structure. How they are formed? How they named? How they are written? The basic form of the Chemical Names comes from their atomic structure. Every chemical is made up of compounds. These compounds are made from atoms which can further made up of cations and anions which are nothing but positively charged atoms and negatively charged atoms. These chemical names of the atoms are generally named by the first two letters of their names. Suppose for hydrogen we use the short form which is “H”. For helium we use “He”. For carbon we use the letter “C”. In this way we classify every element by their short form which is easier to remember than to remember carbon by its structure. When two oppositely charged atoms come across each other, they react to form chemical compounds in order to get stable.

Suppose when twelve atoms of hydrogen, six atoms of oxygenand six atoms of carbon react, they form glucose. This is how we remember those chemicals by their Chemical Names.