External links inorganic molecules made thinkable an interactive visualisation showing inorganic compounds for an array of common metal and non metal ions. C polyatomic cations the names of the common polyatomic cations that are relatively important in ionic compounds such as the ammonium ion are in table . Chemical nomenclature replete as it is with compounds with complex names is a repository for some very peculiar and sometimes startling names. List of organic compounds to find the compound such names usually have the see also organic compound list of compounds list of inorganic compounds . Some examples of inorganic compounds are ammonium carbon dioxide falls into the inorganic compound list because it only contains one carbon atom and