Re: Why sodium instead of natrium?

"beav" <BEAVITH1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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stibnum, too.

[hanson]
The issue was discrepancy of elements' names vs their symbols.
ahahaha... but yeah, yeah, let's put that one on the list too:

H = Hydrogen = Wasserstoff
N = Nitrogen = Stickstoff = Azote
O = Oxygen = Sauerstoff
C = Carbon = Kohlenstoff
W =Tungsten = Wolfram
Hg = Mercury = Quicksilver & = Hydrargyrum (by ref of T.Davidson)
Al = Aluminum (USA) = Aluminium (GB,DE)
Ag = Silver = Argentum
Au = Gold = Aurum
Pb = Lead = Plumbum
Bi = Bismuth = Wismuth
Sb = Antimony = Stibium (by ref of "beavith")
Nb = Niobium = Columbium = Cb
Sm = Samarium = also "Sa"
and the initially mentioned ones by the OP:
Na = Sodium = Natrium
K = Potassium = Kalium

Note H, N, O, C. These 4 elements are "-stoff" = "-stuff", "-material".
H = Hydrogen = Wasserstoff, that's stuff from water/wasser.
N = Nitrogen = Stickstoff, that's stuff which versticks/chokes you.
O = Oxygen = Sauerstoff, that's stuff which makes other stuff
sauer/sour/acidic.
C = Carbon = Kohlenstoff, that's stuff which comes from Kohle/coal.

Do we have any more like that?....
ahahaha... ahahanson


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