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What is the etymology of the symbols for the periodic table?

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You can sen here etymology of all elements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_element_name_etymologies Those names come from Latin, Greek annd other languages and are related with: 1) Geographic places: countries, towns, villages... read more

Probably from Italian sida (or directly from Medieval Latin soda)"a kind of saltwort," from which soda was obtained, of uncertain origin. The symbol Na is from the Modern Latin noun natrium, derived from Greek νίτρον (nítron),"natural soda, a kind of salt" + Latin -ium. read more

If you want to get really into etymology, you can look at the symbols as well. Iron (from the Old Enlish iren, isen, and so on back to probably a proto-indo-european word meaning “strong metal”) has the symbol Fe, which comes from the Latin name for iron. read more