Chemical formulas Spanish to English

Question

This translation is about internal combustion. My question is: do these chemical formulas have the same "spelling" in both languages. I'm presuming they do but perhaps a chemist could confirm or deny this for me. Is say, (C7H16 the same in both languages? Thanks, Example below"

(C8H18 muy ramificado, al que se asigna un poder antidetonante de 100) y heptano (C7H16, cuya capacidad antidetonante asignada es 0).

Answer 1

Spanish table site=so names can be read

iron=hierro=Fe

gold=oro=Au

H20=water=agua, the compount that is 2 parts hydrogen and 1 part oxygen is water no matter what it's name is in the particular language nor which format that they choose to write it in.

Thanks everone. I've just left them as quoted. we'll see what happens! :-) - lagartijaverde, Sep 23, 2010

Answer 2

I'm no chemist (engineer), but I can tell you that it isn't the language, but the country that might be used to writing things differenty. Hydrocarbons are always written the same way, CxHy, but It's a different matter with other compounds. For example, I took a chemistry class in the US and acids/salts like carbonic acid were written like this: CO3H2, whereas here in Spain, both in high school and college they taught it as H2CO3. I wouldn't read much into it though, it is just the same.

Answer 3

I'm no chemist (engineer), but I can tell you that it isn't the language, but the country that might be used to writing things differenty. Hydrocarbons are always written the same way, CxHy, but It's a different matter with other compounds. For example, I took a chemistry class in the US and acids/salts like carbonic acid were written like this: CO3H2, whereas here in Spain, both in high school and college they taught it as H2CO3. I wouldn't read much into it though, it is just the same.  

 

I Argentina we use the same format as in the US. We would write it as CO3H2.

Answer 4

Chemical standards in general are not an idiomatic issue.

For this alcanes the formulation is exactly the same (is needed to use sub-indexes for the numbers). For acids is established that protons are written always before the anion, to write them in the end is considered an obsolete rule.

C7H16 = heptano C8H18 = octano

Usually we use the IUPAC rules for formulation, and the tendency is to apply these ones also for nomenclature to new chemical compounds, but in so usual compounds (and especially in organic chemistry field) traditional nomenclature still prevails even in scientific publications. But I think that this happens in all languages.

Answer 5

This one obviously the same:

They are different compounds with the same melecular formula there are 9 isomers for C7H16

And so is the other:

Dibutyl \Di*bu"tyl, n. [Pref. di- + butyl.] (Chem.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C8H18, of the marsh-gas series, being one of several octanes, and consisting of two butyl radicals. Cf. Octane.

Answer 6

I'm no chemist (engineer), but I can tell you that it isn't the language, but the country that might be used to writing things differenty. Hydrocarbons are always written the same way, CxHy, but It's a different matter with other compounds. For example, I took a chemistry class in the US and acids/salts like carbonic acid were written like this: CO3H2, whereas here in Spain, both in high school and college they taught it as H2CO3. I wouldn't read much into it though, it is just the same.

Costa Rica uses same as US. (at least in highschool that is how they are teaching me)