Because many chemical compounds begin with the same letter, so I think they rely on other letters as symbols so that they do not get repeated
I agree with Prof. Houdas. In most cases, their Latin origins influence their symbols
Because most of the chemical symbols are derived from the Latin name, the English name may not match "gold" and its Latin name is aurum.
Gold is aurum in latin. We had latin 7 h a week for 3 years in school. Silver (ag) comes from argentum. Latin is always written in italics.
"Around 100 BCE the Romans had codified their language into what we call Classical Latin. This was the language of intellectuals, poets, and philosophers, and it helped issue in the golden age of Latin literature. Lasting from the late Republic through the early years of the Roman Empire, this period featured the works of Rome's greatest literary masters, including Cicero, Virgil, Ovid, and Livy."
https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-latin-language-origin-history-influence.html
Because many chemical compounds begin with the same letter, so I think they rely on other letters as symbols so that they do not get repeated
Hello, because a lot of symbols are originate in the Latin word. So gold comes from Aurum, silver from Argentum, sodium from Natrium , potassium from Kalium...
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It is derived from the Latin name "Aurum" not the English name "gold"
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Because most chemical symbols are derived from Latin or Greek, they may not be identical to the English name they are called,
one of the major reason is that the names are not English origin that is why the names and symbols mismatch.
Interestingly now we have to keep an eye on Latin language as well
We don't need to go into the origin of the Latin names which were derived from the Greek (another interesting story). Also the Latin characters used to be part of very ancient Greek (found on some eastern Greek islands) which were changed into the classical Greek characters (around 8th cent BC) that became later modern Greek.
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I think we would also need to go into the origin of Classical Arabic language because we are no doctors "know it all"
Instead of repeating things 20 times we can learn something new.
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