text: The recommendations describe a number of different ways in which compounds can be named. These are:
  *compositional naming (e.g. sodium chloride)
  *substitutive naming based on parent hydrides (GeClMe dichlorodimethylgermane)
  *additive naming ([MnFO] fluoridotrioxidomanganese)
  Additionally there are recommendations for the following:
  *naming of cluster compounds
  *allowed names for inorganic acids and derivatives
  *naming of solid phases e.g. non-stoichiometric phases
  For a simple compound such as AlCl the different naming conventions yield the following:
  *compositional: aluminium trichloride (stoichiometrically) or dialuminium hexachloride (dimer)
  *substitutional: trichloralumane
  *additive: trichloridoaluminium; hexachloridodialuminium (dimer without structural information); di-μ-chlorido-tetrachlorido-1κCl,2κCl-dialuminium (dimer with structural information)