Silly Names
From Wikipedia - List of elements by name , I have listed the elements with unusual symbols: -
Antimony (Stibium) Sb
Copper (Cuprum) Cu
Gold (Aurum) Au
Iron (Ferrum) Fe
Lead (Plumbum) Pb
Mercury (Hydrargyrum) Hg
Potassium (Kalium) K
Silver (Argentum) Ag
Sodium (Natrium) Na
Tin (Stannum) Sn
Tungsten (Wolfram) W
These are all from their original Latin names, apart from Tungsten, which requires a little more explanation: -
Tungsten (Swedish, Danish and Norwegian tung sten meaning "heavy stone", even though the current name for the element in Swedish is volfram, from the denomination volf rahm by Wallerius in 1747, translated from the description by Agricola in 1546 as Lupi spuma) was first hypothesized to exist by Peter Woulfe in 1779 who examined wolframite and concluded that it must contain a new substance.
The articles on each element contain a fascinating amount of information. They are presented in a standard format, and have links to even more information. You can take a look by clicking one of the above element's names.
Antimony (Stibium) Sb
Copper (Cuprum) Cu
Gold (Aurum) Au
Iron (Ferrum) Fe
Lead (Plumbum) Pb
Mercury (Hydrargyrum) Hg
Potassium (Kalium) K
Silver (Argentum) Ag
Sodium (Natrium) Na
Tin (Stannum) Sn
Tungsten (Wolfram) W
These are all from their original Latin names, apart from Tungsten, which requires a little more explanation: -
Tungsten (Swedish, Danish and Norwegian tung sten meaning "heavy stone", even though the current name for the element in Swedish is volfram, from the denomination volf rahm by Wallerius in 1747, translated from the description by Agricola in 1546 as Lupi spuma) was first hypothesized to exist by Peter Woulfe in 1779 who examined wolframite and concluded that it must contain a new substance.
The articles on each element contain a fascinating amount of information. They are presented in a standard format, and have links to even more information. You can take a look by clicking one of the above element's names.
posted by chris at 8:49 am
1 Comments:
sounds like a good idea to me. I shall have to mention it to the powers that be. Perhaps you could mention it to Vince?
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