Pre-Honors Chemistry :: Chemical bonding :: Polyatomic ions

Sentence can be used to remember few polyatomic ions :

" Nick the Camel ate a Clam Supper in Pheonix with an Ale "
        
Nick         :: N with 3 consonants and 1 vowel therefore NO3-1
Camel      :: C with 3 consonants and 2 vowels, therefore CO3-2
Clam        :: Cl with 3 consonants and 1 vowel, therefore ClO3-1
Supper    :: S with 4 consonants and 2 vowels, therefore SO4-2
Pheonix   :: P with 4 consonants and 3 vowels, therefore PO4-3
Ale           :: Al with 2 consonants and 1 vowel, therefore AlO2-1
The following are other ions that can be memorized as well:
BrO3-1     brag, brat         
IO3-1        imps           
MnO4-1    manly, mangy
CrO4-2      crooks, crouch, creeps, cringe, crisis, critic
MoO4-2    mounts, mottos, moulds, mourns, models, molten 
SeO4-2     sexism, search, sermon
SiO3-2      sidle, silky, silo       
WO4-2      waylay, within, winnow
TeO4-2     teller, temper, tenant, tender  
BO3-3       beauty, become, behave
AsO4-3      ascribe, assault
Use ones you find useful :
  • ​Mangy  Monks Search for a Silky Teller   (permanganate, molybdate, selenate, silicate, tellerate)
  • Sexist Mangy Minks Assault the Silky Tenant  (selenate, permanganate, molybdate, arsenate, silicate, tellerate) 
  • Mangy Crooks become Monks because Imps Assault them (permanganate, chromate, molybdate, iodate, arsenate)
  • Winnow the Teller had become a Brat when her Search for Monks failed (tungstate, tellerate, bromate, selenate,  molybdate )   
  • The manly crooks search within moldy silos
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