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At a glance, the Periodic Table naming system and atomic symbol assignment system can seem rather arbitrary at times. However, there is a method to the madness. Carbon has the atomic symbol C for obvious reasons. Potassium is given the symbol of K because its name has initially kalium, which means alkali in Latin. Iron was given the symbol Fe because it was assigned the Latin name for iron, "ferrum".

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