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cos they're not circles?

If you mean the elements themselves (The letters on the blocks), there are several reasons.

1: The element was named after the person who discovered the element.

2: The element was named after a person/place/word that the discoverer chose.

Some examples are:

"Caesium" (Cs) which is a metal element that was named after the Latin word for "deep blue".

"Fermium" (Fm) which was found in the wreckage of the first atomic bomb and was named after Enrico Fermi, who worked on the bomb.

"Californium" (Cf) which was named after the University of California in Berkeley.

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