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Can you finish Secret Agent beakers task to save your planet?. Introduction.
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Can you finish Secret Agent beakers task to save your planet?
Introduction You are a spy from Earth and you have landed on the planet IUPAC in the Ionic galaxy. In violation of an intergalactic treaty, the IUPACians have been hiding vital chemical compounds from the earth. You know the names for the vital compounds, but the IUPACians do not use names. They use a strange language to describe compounds. To save your planet, you must find out the IUPACian formulas of these compounds and turn them in to the Top Secret Agent.
History This last year, Secret Agent Beaker was working undercover in the IUPACian warehouse. His job was to label chemicals with their formulas using the IUPACian symbols. As he labeled the containers, he tried to decode them into Earth names and write them on a drawing.
The Problem: One day the supervisor was checking Beaker’s work. He became suspicious when he discovered that Beaker did not know how to write IUPACian formulas correctly. The supervisor pointed out the correct formulas and Beaker secretly marked them on his drawing.
Sadly The supervisor initiated an investigation of Beaker because all IUPACians know the method for writing formulas. IUPACian intelligence concluded that Beaker was a spy... Beaker’s drawing and notes are with us but sadly, Beaker was executed in typical IUPACianfashon.
Your task To examine a list of names and formulas and establish a strategy for naming and writing formulas of certain chemical compounds. To use the strategies you have established to correct and decode the labels on chemicals in the IUPAC stockroom. To submit the IUPACian formulas of the vital chemical compounds to the Top Secret Agent.