| Elemental Symbols |
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| • | How are
elements given symbols? |
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| • | Chemical symbols
can be one or two letters. The first |
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| letter is always
a capital case and the second letter is |
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| always a small
case. Some symbols are taken from the |
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| Latin or German
names of elements. |
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| • | Na = sodium, K =
potassium, Fe = iron, Cu = copper, Ag |
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| = silver,
Sn = tin, Sb = antimony, W = tungsten, |
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| Au = gold, Hg =
mercury, Pb = lead |
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