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Why are prefixes not used in naming ionic compounds?
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Why are prefixes not used in naming ionic compounds?

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Since we can't utilize charges to make sense of what number of every particle we have (as we did with ionic mixes), we need to determine with prefixes mono-, di-, tri-, tetra, penta-, hexa-,, etc.

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