Re: ClF3

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@hotmail.com>]

>wrong. Sorry, the only help I can give is that it cannot be CF3
>and ClF3.
Of course not: The compound consists of five atoms (as expected) - four 
halogens (of which 3 are fluorine) plus a central carbon. The problem in 
interpretation when leaving out one atom in a formula (in this case carbon) 
is that the unfortunate "C" in "Cl" becomes unclear - especially with word 
processors where the letter "l" may be confused with the digit (1) - I know 
- the 1 is never written out in standard chemistry but if one thing is wrong 
in a formula - there may be more improvisations (=errors). I think that it 
is better to "spell out" all involved atoms as we all were taught in school 
- rather than improvising some "science slang" where some atoms are skipped. 
Thanks again for your comments - I don't think that any more text needs to 
be spent on this. I doubt that IUPAC - if it still exists - would have liked 
this example./Bjorn   bcradsafers@hotmail.com


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