Because they need to memorize what the objects they are testing, and what you can combine them with.
It is a shorthand and makes working with diagrams and reactions easier.
It could be Jons Jakob Berzeliis Jon Jakob Berzelius devised the system using letters of the alphabet as chemical symbols in 1813.
Ba,Kr,Sr,Xe
Scientists use symbols to represent elements and compounds. The symbols of a chemical element are abbreviations that are used to denote a chemical element. Typically, they are one or two-letters long with the first letter (only) capitalised; temporary names are three-letters long. !
The Symbols provide a shorthand method for representing elements and compounds, and how they react with each other. The formula's represent compounds.
there are lots of chemical symbols about 110 but they are only used for elements not compounds.
because it would suck to have to write out their full names everytime
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.
all the colors
All the elements listed on periodic table has symbols for them.There are total 118 elements in periodic table.
Symbols of chemical elements are derived from the chemical name.
On the table of elements.
So that the chemical representation of a compound of several elements is more easily recognized, and handled in representations of reactions.
It could be Jons Jakob Berzeliis Jon Jakob Berzelius devised the system using letters of the alphabet as chemical symbols in 1813.
Chemical symbols are derived from Latin words for the chemicals.
Antoine Lavoiser proposed the use of symbols and formulas in naming elements.
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Chemical symbols indicate elements.