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What elements have English names?

english-names of elements.


Where does the elements get their names?

Elements got their names from their latin names,greek gods,or from the names of the persons who discovered them.


Why do some elements start with a different letter on the periodic table?

some of the symbols for elements in the periodic table differ from their names as their syymbols are base on their latin names, for instance, sodium, symbol Na comes from natrium the latin name, same for other elements such as lead (plumbum) and tin (selenium) and so on


Do all symbols of elements have greek names?

No. Most of the symbols for elements are derived from their names in English. Most of the elements were not even known in ancient Greece.


Why is that sometimes an element symbol is not the first letter of its name?

Some of the chemical symbols are derived from element names in foreign languages, especially Latin.

Related questions

Why do some element have unusual letter for their 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.


Which southern colony bordered on foreign nonenglish terriory?

Georgia.


Where did the elements got there names and symbols?

Many elements names are of Greek and Latin words. Some elements are name after where named after countries like France, German ect.


Where do elements on the periodic table get their symbols from?

Some elements are named after the compound that they came from, or some attribute of it. Other elements are named after some aspect of the way in which the element was found. Still, there are other elements that get their names from places. Another interesting group of names comes from mythology. -Nev Singhota


What elements have English names?

english-names of elements.


Where does the elements get their names?

Elements got their names from their latin names,greek gods,or from the names of the persons who discovered them.


What are the names for some elements?

Don't know but play minecraft and it can tell you what you can make with it.


Do elements have one word names?

Yes. Elements have one word names.


Why some elements were given names likr einsteinium?

These names were established to honor the memory of great scientists in chemistry or physics.


Names of the five elements with the highest densities?

names of the five elements with the highist densities


What languages were used in developing the names of some of the elements?

english,spanish,swedish and chinese


What are the names for a pereodic table?

These names are the names of chemical elements.