• Question: Do you know the symbols for every element in the periodic table?

    Asked by alice1996 to Gioia, Iain, Jo, Leo, Mariam on 19 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Joanna Watson

      Joanna Watson answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Not any more, I used to remember most of them when I was at school, but I’ve forgotten a lot of them now.

    • Photo: Iain Moal

      Iain Moal answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      No all of them, but most of them. I had to learn how to spell all the main ones when I was at uni for one of the exams. Some have really strange spelling.

    • Photo: Gioia Cherubini

      Gioia Cherubini answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Well, maybe not all of them, but quite a lot. It’s thanks to the crosswords (there was always a definition about symbols of chemical elements!) that I used to do with my dad that I have learnt most of the symbols though, so nothing science related.

    • Photo: Leo Garcia

      Leo Garcia answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      No – but I would have thought that professional chemists know big portions of it, as they must use it so often.

    • Photo: Mariam Orme

      Mariam Orme answered on 19 Jun 2010:

      No. I know quite a lot of them, but there are loads that I don’t know.

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