Element Symbols List Chemical Element Abbreviations
Jun 27, 2019· In fact, there are eleven of the abbreviations for the elements which don''t seem to match the modern name. Those are subtle reminders of the history of the Periodic Table and the process of the discovery of elements over the millennia. Eight of these oddities are Au (gold), Ag (silver), Cu (copper), FE (iron), SN (tin), Pb (lead), Sb (antimony), and Hg (mercury): All were among the elements ...