If Your Cat Took Chemistry, Would She Eat This Stuff?
This assignment allows you to review a rather difficult topic covered – ionic and covalent formulas found on
labels of products in the supermarket, drugstore, or at home. 
The following are listed ingredients for Puss ‘n’ Boots Pounce Cat Treats (shrimp flavor).
Flour, liver, dried whole egg, glycerin, pregelatinized wheat flour, shrimp by-products,
wheat gluten, torula dried yeast, calcium sulfate, cheese meal, phosphoric acid, animal fat
(preserved with butylated hydrocyanisole, otherwise known as BHA), potassium chloride,
salt, potassium sorbate (a preservative), wheat middlings, color, choline chloride, calcium
carbonate, ferrous sulfate, vitamin E supplement, zinc oxide, BHA (again!), cupric oxide,
cobalt carbonate, manganous oxide, vitamin A supplement, potassium iodide, D-calcium
pantothenate, vitamin B-12 supplement, vitamin D-3 supplement, water sufficient for
processing.
1. You are to read product labels and find compounds listed in the ingredients of the product.
For each compound, the following information is required:
a. Name of the product in which the compound is found
b. Name of the compound
c. The ions with their charge in the compound
d. The formula of the compound
2. You must turn in a list of at least 20 different compounds. On this list of 20, 10 of these
compounds must come from the Pounce treats analyzed above (bold face italicized words).
This will make your list have a total of 20 compounds (10 from Pounce treats + 10 from
other products).
3. A compound may only be used once.
4. A product may only be used for a maximum of two compounds. The Pounce treats is the
only product that may be used more than twice.
5. You will use the attached worksheet to record your findings.
6. Your name and period must be in the upper right hand corner of the list.
IONS LIST
Cations
Ion
Aluminum
Ammonium
Calcium
Formula
Al+3
NH4+1
Ca+2
Ion
Hydrogen
Magnesium
Nickel (II)
Formula
Ion
Potassium
Sodium
Zinc
Formula
K+1
Na+1
Zn+2
Formula
Ion
Oxide
Sulfide
Formula
O-2
S-2
Formula
Ion
Formula
+1
H
Mg+2
Ni+2
Monoatomic Anions
Ion
Bromide
Chloride
Formula
Br-1
Cl-1
Ion
-1
Fluoride
Iodide
F
I-1
Polyatomic Anions
Ion
Formula
Acetate
C2H3O2-1
Bromate
Br03-1
Carbonate
Chlorate
Hydrogen Carbonate
(bicarbonate)
CO3-2
ClO3-1
Ion
Hydrogen sulfate
(bisulfate)
Hydrogen sulfite
(bisulfite)
Hydroxide
Hypochlorite
HCO3-1
Nitrate
HSO4-1
Phosphate
PO4-3
HSO3-1
Sulfate
SO4-2
OH-1
ClO-1
Sulfite
Tetraborate
SO3-2
B4O7-4
Ion
Tin (II)
Tin (IV)
Formula
Stannous
Stannic
NO3-1
Alternate Names
Ion
Chromium (II)
Chromium (III)
Copper (I)
Iron (II)
Formula
Chromous
Chromic
Cupric
Ferrous
Ion
Iron (III)
Manganese (II)
Mercury (I)
Mercury (II)
Formula
Ferric
Manganous
Mercurous
Mercuric
CHEMICAL COMOUNDS FOUND IN DIFFERENT PRODUCTS
Product Name.
Compound Name
Ions in comound
Formula
Ca2+ (SO4)21
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
Pounce
calcium sulfate
CaSO4