Common Element Names and Symbols

Fluorine

• F

• Fl

• Fu

• Fo

Who was this Swedish chemist who used letters as chemical symbols of elements?

• Robert Boyle

• Jons Jakob Berzelius

• Antoine Lavoisier

• Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner

'Argentum' is the Latin name of the symbol of which metallic element?

• Aluminum

• Gold

• Mercury

• Silver

How many elements have a single-letter chemical symbol?

• 13

• 14

• 15

• 16

How many elements have chemical symbols different from their names?

• 10

• 11

• 12

• 13

Four new elements have been added to the modern periodic table as of 2016, thereby completing the 7th period. Which one is element 115?

• Nihonium (Nh)

• Moscovium (Mc)

• Tennessine (Ts)

• Oganesson (Og)

Calcium

• Cl

• Ca

• C

• Cm

Gold

• Go

• Gl

• AU

• Au

Pb

• Gold

• Lead

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• Paribium

Nickel

• Ni

• N

• Nl

• Nc

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