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How can you tell if a compound is covalent by looking at the name?

There will be numerical prefixes.
There will be a metal.
There's no way to tell.
There will be roman numerals.

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User Lennart Regebro
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The answer is A. It can’t be b because covalent compounds don’t have metals I them. It can’t be C because they are easily distinguished due to their numerical prefixes like mono, di, tri
It can’t be D because Roman numerals are for metals in the d block that can have different states of valence electrons
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