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So in this video we're going to go over question 84 from chapter 3, which says research several elements whose symbols are inconsistent with their english names.
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Some examples include silver, gold, and mercury.
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Compare the origin of these names with the origin of the symbols.
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So i've made a list of some elements whose symbols don't match their names.
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And those include a .g, which is silver.
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A .u, which is gold.
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Hg, which is mercury, f .e, which is iron.
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S -n, which is 10.
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K, which is potassium.
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N -a, which is sodium.
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P -b, which is lead.
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S -b, which is antimony, c -u, which is copper, and w, which is tungsten.
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And i'm going to go over just a few of these, about six of them, where their names originate for them.
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So the first one we're going to do is silver or ag.
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And so the name silver comes from the anglo -saxon word seal for.
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And the symbol, ag, comes from the latin word argentum, which was the latin word for silver.
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Then we have mercury, which is hg...