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Why is the chemical name for the combination of Nitrogen and Oxygen Nitric Oxide (NO) and not Oxide Nitric (ON)?

Is there a rule as to why the N in nitrogen comes before the O in oxygen when writing it’s chemical name?

I hope this makes sense…

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The N in Nitrogen gets dibs on the front spot simply because it was the one to say “NO” first.

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