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They are the abbreviation of the name of the element. Some of the names are taken from the original Roman names (e.g. gold=Aurium=Au), the accepted English name (e.g. Aluminum=Al) or the name of a famous person or place (e.g. Einstein=Einsteinium=Es). There are some like Tungsten=W (for Wolfram) that require a knowledge of the history of the material's discovery.

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