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What do some chemical names come from the Latin name of the element?
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It is only a convention.
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Where did potassium's chemical symbol come from?
The original word for potassium in Latin is kalium. That is where you get K for the element , Potassium.
Where did hassium's name come from?
The name of the chemical element hassium is derived from Hassia, the Latin name of the German land Hessen.
What language did the element galluim come from?
Latin
Why is cu copper's symbol?
Copper, that wonderful metal we use for electrical wire and piping, was known to ancients. Its use dates back thousands of years. It was called cuprum back in the day, which is Latin. And that Latin name is the source of its chemical symbol, Cu.
Where did the meaning of names come from?
They come from Latin words I think.
What is the second letter in a chemical symbol?
Most elements symbols come from their latin names. There is more than one element with a name beginning in N so to distinguish nickel from nitrogen (you couldn't write them both as N) one is written as N and the other as Ni
What element come from the Latin word alkali kalium?
Potassium.
What language does the chemical symbol for Potassium come from?
Potassium is kalium in Latin.
Where did the chemical symbol K come from?
Potassium's chemical symbol K comes from the Latin word kalium.
What language did the element name come from?
Latin, Greek and proper noun derivatives
Where do the names Sodium and Na come from and mean the same element number 11?
You may be familiar with natrium used for sodium in Germanistic languages, chemical symbol Na is the short writing for this element. This element gets its chemical symbol from its Latin name (just as copper does from cuprum, so that became Cu).The Latin word natrium comes from the Arabic word 'natrun'. And the ancients didn't know the element sodium as it wasn't isolated until the 19th century. But they recognized salt, soda, and other sodium compounds.The name sodium comes from the Arabic word 'suda' meaning headache, as soda (sodium (bi)carbonate) was known to be a pre-mediaeval anti-headache medicine.
What are some products that have latin names?
Visene (there's a Visene for that!) come from the Latin videre, meaning to see
