The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC, pronounced "youpack") meets occasionally to decide these sorts of issues.
Symbols of elements areEnglish or latinwords or roots.
Symbols represent name of the element. They signify the position of element in periodic table.
All the elements listed on periodic table has symbols for them.There are total 118 elements in periodic table.
the periodic table shows the elements forular/symbols
yes
The letters on the periodic table are the chemical symbols of the chemical elements.
Symbols are used to shorten the names of the elements.
Lithium
so that we can identifythem
because the chemical symbols are different
Just look at a Periodic Table
Dmitri Mendeleev