How to Write the Formula for Tin (II) sulfate

[00:00:01]to write the formula for tin two sulfate we go to the periodic table tin that has an element symbol of s n sulfate that's not on the periodic table it ends in ate which means it's a polyatomic ion and we can look it up on a table of common polyatomic ions or you could have it memorized sulfate is so4 2-minus tin is a metal and then sulfate that's made up of a group of non-metals so we have a metal and non-metals we have an ionic compound and we need to consider the charge on the tin and then we know the sulfates two minus so 10 tells us it's 10 2 and this roman numeral 2 that tells us the charge on the transition metal 10. so that's a two plus we have a two minus for the sulfate these add up to zero we have a net charge of zero so that makes this the formula for tin two sulfate let's clean it up a little bit and that's it the formula for tin two sulfate snso4 this is dr b and thanks for watching