You either have to learn (memorize) them, or look them up in the Periodic Table.
Because not all of the elements were founded by people who speak English which caused the symbols to be converted to be recognised in there language to match the words and not English as it may not be the language they speak.
All the elements listed on periodic table has symbols for them.There are total 118 elements in periodic table.
Symbols of chemical elements are derived from the chemical name.
The symbols for elements are based on their Latin or Greek names. Sometimes the symbols may not directly correspond to the full name of the element due to historical or linguistic reasons. For example, the symbol for sodium (Na) comes from its Latin name "natrium."
On the table of elements.
the sybols come from latin and german he germans are big into chemistry and they named some of them and the romans were the first to find these elements and they named them in latin and we changed the real name but none of the symbols
some elements do not use their first letters of their English names as their symbols. The symbols for these elements may come from the names of the elements in a different language.
symbols of the elements symbols of the elements
The four elements of the triangle symbols are fire, water, air, and earth.
Chemical symbols indicate elements.
Chemical symbols are used to represent elements.
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