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Se is the symbol of Selenium by taking the first two letters of its name.

The name's origin was explained in another answer from me:

Selenium, Se, (from Greek "σελήνη" , selene, meaning "Moon") was discovered in 1817 by Jöns Jakob Berzelius, who found the element associated with Te and S,in the process of making sulfuric acid. (source: WikiPedia, 2010-04-02)

1. Tellurium (from Latin tellus, meaning "Earth") and with

2. Sulfur (from Sanskrit sulvari, is biblically associated with "hell", -Genesis)

3. Oxygen, O, from 2 Greek roots "ὀξύς" (oxys) ( = acid, literally "sharp", from the taste of acids) and "γενής" (-genēs) ( = producer, literally begetter)

Those four elements are all in the same group, number 16 of the Periodic Table.

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