GK QUESTION#3520
Polyatomic positive ions often have common names ending with the suffix _________.
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C. -onium
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Many familiar polyatomic cations have names ending in -onium, for example ammonium, hydronium, phosphonium and sulfonium. This is a naming pattern for these ions, rather than a claim that every polyatomic positive ion has an -onium name.