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Here we show the three parts of ATP with their names.

You can see the adenine which gives the 'adeno' part of the name. The ribose gives the 'sine' part. The three phosphorus (P) atoms give the 'phosphate' part and the 'tri' is used because there are three of them. Altogether that makes adenosine triphosphate, but we'll just call it ATP.