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Looking at the name of an acid, how do you know if it only contains two elements or if it contains more than two?

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When an acid begins with hydro-, that means that it is just the hydrogen atom with one other atom. For example, Hydrofluoric acid is composed of just a hydrogen and a fluorine atom: HF
If it doesn’t have hydro in front, it has more than two total elements is it.
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