Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-29378625-20170819041115/@comment-24675428-20170819090103

Calllack wrote: Why's it so long though? It's like they took it upon themselves to describe every single element of the compound rather than using naming conventions. It'd be like calling methane 'hydrogenwithcarbonattachedwithcarbonattachedwithcarbonattachedwithcarbonattached'. Okay the actual reason is this

For example, methane has one carbon and 3 hydrogen. Propane has 3 and 9.

So dimethylpropane has 2 methanes attached to the ends of the Propane

The naming convention describes what is attached to what, and where.

Now imagine instead of a propane and 2 methanes you had like.....

Something with WAY too many carbons, and attacked to the carbons were like a bunch of other stuff with WAY too many carbons and attached to that are random compounds with oxygens and Glucose segments and attached to those are.....

and basically you end up with a REALLY complex name for a compound becuase of how many chains there are, but you need that name becuase that is the convention for literally every other organic compound.