Re: Why sodium instead of natrium?

From: Frank <frank.logullo@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:42:14 -0800 (PST)

On Jan 22, 7:48 pm, Cat <typing...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello. I'm a Korean who lives in Korea. Perhaps this question is not
important at all, but I'm just curious. Many Korean names of
elements , that are not in Korean language, are the same as those of
English. For example, we call helium as helium, lithium as lithium.
This is also true for Japanese (I speak some Japanese).

This is interesting:

http://www.vanderkrogt.net/elements/elem/na.html

English man, Humphrey Davy discovered sodium, name derived from soda,
but German, Berzelius called it natrium.
.

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- Why sodium instead of natrium?
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