![A Basic Guide to Decoding the Names of Organic Compounds](https://i0.wp.com/www.compoundchem.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/A-Basic-Guide-to-Decoding-the-Names-of-Organic-Compounds.png?resize=700%2C495&ssl=1)
If you’ve ever looked on the back of a bottle of shampoo, or at that of a household cleaner, you’ve probably come across a list of organic compound names. To chemists, these are precise descriptions of the compounds, but to non-chemists, they can sometimes just look like some kind of indecipherable code. The aim of today’s graphic is to try and shed a little light on this code, and what it all means.