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Which prefix would appear in the IUPAC name for a covalent compound that has four atoms of a single element?
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Which prefix would appear in the IUPAC name for a covalent compound that has four atoms of a single element?

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tetra-

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The correct prefix is ‘tetra’. You can remember this because in Tetris (the game) you always get a block that consists out of 4 small squares arranged differently.
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