The three letter symbol is given on the basis of its atomic no. whereas the other symbols are given for historical reasons or properties.
It stands for Hydro fluoride acid.Only 1st letter is capital in a symbol of an element.
Every element has a one or two (or three, if the element doesn't have an official name yet) letter symbol.
It is called a chemical symbol.
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.
The letter in the boxes are symbol of the element. It represents name of the element.
O is the the symbol of the element oxygen.
The heaviest element with a one letter atomic symbol is uranium (symbol: U).
No element has a single lower-case letter as its symbol. Nitrogen has the symbol N.
This is the chemical symbol of a chemical element.
Atomic Symbol
Nitrogen is the seventh element on the periodic table. Its symbol is the capital letter N.
It stands for Hydro fluoride acid.Only 1st letter is capital in a symbol of an element.
Every element has a one or two (or three, if the element doesn't have an official name yet) letter symbol.
Atomic Symbol
The symbol for an element is usually the first letter of its modern name but this is often supplemented by another letter from the name to make the symbol unique. In some cases, the symbol is based on the Latin name.
It is called a chemical symbol.
V was picked for Vanadium's chemical symbol because it is easy to remember a symbol if it is the first letter of the element's name. Sometimes the symbol is the first letter of the element's name in Latin.