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Common Names That Override Systematic Rules
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A small set of molecular compounds keep a traditional common name instead of the name their own systematic rules would predict.
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N2O is called nitrous oxide in practice, though the prefix rules alone would predict "dinitrogen monoxide" for the same molecule.
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Water is the most extreme case — nobody calls H2O "dihydrogen monoxide" outside of a joke about the name itself.
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