This article is about chemicals' informal names. For the specific epithet (biology), see Binomial nomenclature.
The element mercury was named after the Roman god of the same name (painting by Hendrik Goltzius).
In chemistry, a trivial name is a non-systematic name for a chemical substance. That is, the name is not recognized according to the rules of any formal system of chemical nomenclature such as IUPAC inorganic or IUPAC organic nomenclature. A trivial name is not a formal name and is usually a common name.
Generally, trivial names are not useful in describing the essential properties of the thing being named. Properties such as the molecular structure of a chemical compound are not indicated. And, in some cases, trivial names can be ambiguous or will carry different meanings in different industries or in different geographic regions (for example, a trivial name such as white metal can mean various things). Trivial names are simpler. As a result, a limited number of trivial chemical names are retained names, an accepted part of the nomenclature.
Trivial names often arise in the common language; they may come from historic usages in, for example, alchemy. Many trivial names pre-date the institution of formal naming conventions. Names can be based on a property of the chemical, including appearance (color, taste or smell), consistency, and crystal structure; a place where it was found or where the discoverer comes from; the name of a scientist; a mythological figure; an astronomical body; the shape of the molecule; and even fictional figures. All elements that have been isolated have trivial names.
In chemistry, a trivialname is a non-systematic name for a chemical substance. That is, the name is not recognized according to the rules of any formal...
using a one-word trivialname (nomen triviale) after a generic name (genus name) in a system of binomial nomenclature. Trivialnames had already appeared...
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those who first isolate them. However, many trivialnames predate formal naming conventions. Trivialnames can also be ambiguous or carry different meanings...
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methoxy(CH3O)ethane(CH2CH3). IUPAC rules are often not followed for simple ethers. The trivialnames for simple ethers (i.e., those with none or few other functional groups)...
in 1814 by the English chemist William Hyde Wollaston. The name lives on as a trivialname. The bicarbonate ion (hydrogencarbonate ion) is an anion with...
any IUPAC name that is not a "preferred IUPAC name". A retained name is a traditional or otherwise often used name, usually a trivialname, that may be...
one systematic part and at least one trivial part, such as a chemical vernacular name. Creating systematic names can be as simple as assigning a prefix...
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easily understood than non-systematic names, which must be learnt or looked over. However, the common or trivialname is often substantially shorter and...
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In organic chemistry, an alkane, or paraffin (a historical trivialname that also has other meanings), is an acyclic saturated hydrocarbon. In other words...
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the trivialnames these elements receive once confirmed; thus, elements 117 and 118 are now tennessine and oganesson, respectively. For these trivial names...
for naming polymer substances. Many commonly used polymers, such as those found in consumer products, are referred to by a common or trivialname. The...
Paraquat (trivialname; /ˈpærəkwɒt/), or N,N′-dimethyl-4,4′-bipyridinium dichloride (systematic name), also known as methyl viologen, is an organic compound...
carbon from the omega end. Its trivialname is cervonic acid (from the Latin word cerebrum for "brain"), its systematic name is all-cis-docosa-4,7,10,13...
Benzidine (trivialname), also called 1,1'-biphenyl-4,4'-diamine (systematic name), is an organic compound with the formula (C6H4NH2)2. It is an aromatic...
fatty acid. In physiological literature, it is given the name 20:5(n-3). It also has the trivialname timnodonic acid. In chemical structure, EPA is a carboxylic...
CHOCH2COOH is named 2-oxoethanoic acid. If replacing the aldehyde group with a carboxyl group (−COOH) would yield a carboxylic acid with a trivialname, the aldehyde...
conjugate acid of bistriflimide, which is frequently referred to by the trivialname bistriflimidic acid (CAS: 82113-65-3), is a commercially available superacid...
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