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Why isn't the symbol for magnesium M?

Updated: 8/18/2019
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It is because other elements with name starting from M were there like Manganese,

So to clarify the element they Magnesium Mg and Manganese Mn.

A later discovered element Meitnerium was given the synbol Mt.

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