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Why do elements have one capital letter and others have a capital letter and one or two lowercase?
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∙ 8y ago
All elements have a capital letter.... often taken from the first letter of their name in Latin.
Some only needed one letter because there was no confusion when they were being written.... Hydrogen was the only H at first, then when Helium was discovered the custom was that H stood for Hydrogen so it couldn't easily be changed, so Helium became He.... and so on.
There are no element symbols having 2 lowercase letters.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoAll element symbols have capital letters in them. Actual names are lower case. (What I mean is N vs nitrogen.) Some element symbols have two letters, one capitalized and one lower case, in order to differentiate between the elements. For example, Sn is tin, S is sulfur, and Sb is antimony. If we only had "S" then it would be difficult to differentiate. We couldn't just do "N" or "B" either because those are actual elements. If it doesn't seem like the name connects with its letters, it's because the letters come from the Latin name. For example, Sn comes from stannum, the Latin name for tin.
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∙ 8y agoThis is the convention used by chemists. It also corresponds to the usual convention for abbreviations of words.
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