# Naming Chemical Compounds **Chemical Nomenclature:** A collection of rules used to name the vast array of [[Atoms, Molecules, and Compounds]] discovered by scientists. The simplest compounds are known as **binary compounds**, as their name implies they consist of only two elements. --- ## Compounds Containing Only Monatomic Ions ### Naming Oxyions When a nonmetal forms two oxyanions: - `-ate` is the suffix