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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These include compounds based on octadehydrocorrin, which has thetrivialnamecorrole.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thetrivialnameof the species, glaucum, refers to the greyish colour of the leaves.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The group itself has not acquired atrivialname; however, scandium, yttrium and the lanthanides are sometimes called rare earth metals.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The group itself has not acquired atrivialname; it belongs to the broader grouping of the transition metals.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, thetrivialnamecan be potentially confusing.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thetrivialnamealkali metals comes from the fact that the hydroxides of the group 1 elements are all strong alkalis when dissolved in water.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.On the other hand, systematic names can be so convoluted and difficult to parse that their trivial names are preferred.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.And, in some cases, trivial names can be ambiguous or will carry different meanings in different industries or in different geographic regions.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, many trivial names predate formal naming conventions.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Polysaccharides have been given trivial names that reflect their origin.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For instance, the trivial names orthophosphoric acid and trimetaphosphoric acid have nothing to do with aromatics at all.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Trivial names often arise in the common language; they may come from historic usages in, for example, alchemy.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Many trivial names pre-date the institution of formal naming conventions.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Trivial names, however, are not useful for most other oligosaccharides and, as such, systematic rules for the nomenclature of carbohydrates have been developed.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Trivial names on the other hand abound with homonyms and synonyms and are therefore a bad choice as a defining database key.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Glycerol and acetic acid are examples of retained semisystematic names; furan and anisole are examples of retained trivial names.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These so-called silly or funny trivial names (of course depending on culture) can also serve an educational purpose.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Butyl is the largest substituent for which trivial names are commonly used for all isomers.
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