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2. List of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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   A chemical element, often simply called an element, is a type of atom which has a specific number of protons in its atomic nucleus (i.e., a specific atomic number, or Z). [ 1 ] The definitive visualisation of all 118 elements is the periodic table of the elements , whose history along the principles of the periodic law was one of the founding ...

3. List of chemical element name etymologies - Wikipedia

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   41 of the 118 known elements have names associated with, or specifically named for, places around the world or among astronomical objects. 32 of these have names tied to the places on Earth, and the other nine are named after to Solar System objects: helium for the Sun; tellurium for the Earth; selenium for the Moon; mercury (indirectly), uranium, neptunium and plutonium after their respective ...

4. File:The Periodic Table of the Elements in Pictures.pdf

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   The table is color-coded to show the chemical groupings. Small symbols pack in additional information: solid/liquid/gas, the color of an element, common in the human body, common in the earth's crust, magnetic metals, noble metals, radioactive, and rare or never found in nature.

5. Periodic table - Wikipedia

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   Periodic tables usually at least show the elements' symbols; many also provide supplementary information about the elements, either via colour-coding or as data in the cells. The above table shows the names and atomic numbers of the elements, and also their blocks, natural occurrences and standard atomic weights. For the short-lived elements ...

6. Naming of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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   The first letter is always capitalized. While the symbol is often a contraction of the element's name, it may sometimes not match the element's English name; for example, "Pb" for lead (from Latin plumbum) or "W" for tungsten (from German Wolfram). Elements which have only temporary systematic names are given temporary three-letter symbols (e.g ...

7. List of elements by symbol - Wikipedia

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   Download as PDF; Printable version; From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Redirect page. Redirect to: Chemical symbol#Symbols for chemical elements;

8. Chemical symbol - Wikipedia

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   These symbols are based on systematic element names, which are now replaced by trivial (non-systematic) element names and symbols. Data is given in order of: atomic number , systematic symbol, systematic name; trivial symbol, trivial name.

9. Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry

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   A full history of the Green Book's various editions is provided in the historical introduction to the third edition. The second edition and the third edition (second printing) of the Green Book have both been made available online as PDF files; the PDF version of the third edition is fully searchable. The four-page concise summary is also ...