Online Chemistry Notes: Charges for Transition Metals

Sometimes we will need to know the charge of a transition metal to predict the products of an equation, or name a compound.

So I created a table of the different names, and charges for common transition metals that you can use to do your homework. Here it is:

Name	Symbol	Charge
Ferric    or Iron (III)	Fe (III)	+3
Ferrous   or Iron (II)	Fe (II)	+2
Stannic   or Tin (IV)	Sn (IV)	+4
Stannous   or Tin (II)	Sn (II)	+2
Plumbic   or Lead (IV)	Pb (IV)	+4
Plumbous   or Lead (II)	Pb (II)	+2
Cupric   or Copper (II)	Cu (II)	+2
Cuprous   or Copper (I)	Cu (I)	+1
Mercuric   or Mercury (II)	Hg (II)	+2
Mercurous   or Mercury (I)	Hg (I)	+1