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In Chinese, characters for the elements are the last officially created and recognized characters in the Chinese writing system.Unlike characters for unofficial varieties of Chinese (e.g., written Cantonese) or other now-defunct ad hoc characters (e.g., those by the Empress Wu), the names for the elements are official, consistent, and taught (with Mandarin pronunciation) to every Chinese and ...
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18; 1: 氢 qīng hydrogen H: 氦 hài helium He: 2: 锂 lǐ lithium Li: 铍 pí beryllium Be: 硼 péng boron B: 碳 ...
Advice, Practice, Licence etc. (those with c) are nouns and Advise, Practise, License etc. are verbs. One way of remembering this is that the word ' n oun' comes before the word ' v erb' in the dictionary; likewise ' c' comes before ' s' , so the n ouns are 'practi c e, licen c e, advi c e' and the v erbs are 'practi s e, licen s e, advi s e'.
Periodic table of the chemical elements showing the most or more commonly named sets of elements (in periodic tables), and a traditional dividing line between metals and nonmetals. The f-block actually fits between groups 2 and 3 ; it is usually shown at the foot of the table to save horizontal space.
Like the periodic table, the list below organizes the elements by the number of protons in their atoms; it can also be organized by other properties, such as atomic weight, density, and electronegativity. For more detailed information about the origins of element names, see List of chemical element name etymologies.
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The reason that a Chinese periodic table is encyclopedic and we do depict a periodic table in Chinese but not in other languages is because Chinese is one of the few languages, perhaps the only language, that uses characters instead of the usual one or two letter abbreviations for elements. Also, the page has some information about the history ...