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Showing posts with label element. Show all posts
Showing posts with label element. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Lead-Pb,82
plumbian is the abbreviation for Pb witch is the latin word for soft metals
it was thought to be one of the oldest metals in achamy.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Americium (Am 95 are it's symbol on periodic table and it's atomic number) ( a radioactive metal found in nuclear reactors) is named after the country it was found in.
ES-Einsteinium
It was named after Aberta Einstein.
It was named after Aberta Einstein.
Sodium is the 11th element in the periodic table, the abbreviation for sodium is Na because the Latin word for sodium is natrium.
Antimony's checical symbol is Sb becasue it is made out of a lustrous grey metalloid, it is found in nature mainly as the sulfide mineral stibnite (Sb2S3) the symbol is Sb because sulfide mineral is Sb2
silver is called Ag because, Ag is an abbreviation of Argentum - the Latin word for silver.
Latin cuprum: from the isle of Cyprus, which is famed for its copper mines. Copper has been known since prehistoric time. It has been mined for more than 5000 years. The metal and its alloys have been used for thousands of years. In the Roman era, copper was principally mined on Cyprus, hence the origin of the name of the metal as сyprium (metal of Cyprus), later shortened to сuprum.
`K` is the symbol for Potassium because, Neo-Latin Kalium. It's atomic number is 19.
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