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The Names and Symbols of the Elements. The names of the ele ments are given in order of atomic number in Table 4-1. The chemical symbols of the elements, used as abbreviations for their names, are also given in the table. These symbols are usually the initial letters of the names, plus another letter when necessary. In some cases the initial letters of Latin names are used Fe for iron (ferrum), Cu for copper (cuprum), Ag for silver (argentum), Au for gold (aurum), Hg for mercury (hydrargyrum). Th system of chemical symbols was proposed by the great Swedish chemist Jons Jakob Berzelius (1779-1848) in 1811. 

Introduction of Latin Names. The Latin names of the elements of the first category (aurum, argentum, cuprum, ferrum, hydrargyrum, plumbum, stannum, and sulfur) should be introduced as scientific names into the literature of all countries. These should not necessarily replace the national names in common usage. The use of Latin names may be of importance in distinguishing between the element ferrum and common iron, for example, but it will be an advantage to use these names especially when forming names of compounds. 

The way MIC is being monitored and controlled in industry is in general... far inferior to the extensive knowledge of MIC experts and available standard. This is a bitter fact that, while it may not be trne for all indnstries in all countries, one cannot help but, based on his or her experiences, accept that in a wide range of industries, it is still exercised. In many cases, the author has personally met with professionals who still do not believe in MIC. Also, the author has met many engineers who were disappointed at what they had received as a report for their alleged MIC cases. They looked at the report and said, What is this Just a bunch of Latin names, curves, tables and all that with no practical solution for my problem What is the root cause problem ... 

Hafinia, Latin name for Copenhagen) Many years before its discovery in 1932 (credited to D. Coster and G. von Hevesey), Hafnium was thought to be present in various minerals and concentrations. On the basis of the Bohr theory, the new element was expected to be associated with zirconium. 

The atomic symbol is one or two letters chosen to represent an element ("H" for "hydrogen," etc.). These symbols are used internationally. Typically, a symbol is the truncated name of the element or the truncated Latin name of the element. Click here for... 

Saccharin was discovered at Johns Hopkins Uni versity in 1879 in the course of research on coal tar derivatives and is the oldest artificial sweetener In spite of Its name which comes from the Latin word for sugar saccharin bears no structural relationship to any sugar Nor is saccharin itself very soluble in wa ter The proton bonded to nitrogen however is fairly acidic and saccharin is normally marketed as its water soluble sodium or calcium salt Its earliest applications were not in weight control but as a... 

Whereas zirconium was discovered in 1789 and titanium in 1790, it was not until 1923 that hafnium was positively identified. The Bohr atomic theory was the basis for postulating that element 72 should be tetravalent rather than a trivalent member of the rare-earth series. Moseley s technique of identification was used by means of the x-ray spectra of several 2ircon concentrates and lines at the positions and with the relative intensities postulated by Bohr were found (1). Hafnium was named after Hafma, the Latin name for Copenhagen where the discovery was made. 

The need for simple names to describe complex structures has been met in several ways, the most straightforward of which is to use a trivial name giving little or no structural information e.g. morphine, opuntiol). Such names are.often based on the Latin name of the species from which the compound was isolated e.g. opuntiol from Opuntia eliator). While this is acceptable for a newly isolated compound of unknown structure, it is less satisfactory once the structure is established. What is needed is some means of establishing the relationship of the compound to others in the same class, without going into too much detail with regard to structure and stereochemistry. This can be achieved by defining, for a particular group of structures, a parent structure. 

In chemistry, an element is identified by its symbol. This consists of one or two letters, usually derived from the name of the element. Thus the symbol for carbon is C that for aluminum is Al. Sometimes the symbol comes from the Latin name of the element or one of its compounds. The two elements copper and mercury, which were known in ancient times, have the symbols Cu (cuprum) and Hg (hydrargyrum). 

An older system used the suffixes -ic for the ion of higher charge and -ous for the ion of lower charge. These were added to the stem of the Latin name of the metal, so that the Fe3+ ion was referred to as ferric and the Fe2+ ion as ferrous.)... 

Each element has been named and, for convenience, has been given a nickname—a shorthand symbol of one or two letters. Thus the element carbon is symbolized by the letter C, the element neon by the letters Ne. The symbols are adopted by international agreement among chemists. Eleven of the elements have names derived from the capitalized first letter of the Latin name of the element and, if necessary, by a second letter (uncapitalized). These eleven include seven common metals known to the ancients. (See Table 2-V.)... 

If the complex has an overall negative charge (an anionic complex), the suffix -ate is added to the stem of the metal s name. If the symbol of the metal originates from a Latin name (as listed in Appendix 2D), then the Latin stem is used. For example, the symbol for iron is Fe, from the Latin ferrum. Therefore, any anionic complex of iron ends with -ferrate followed by the oxidation number of the metal in Roman numerals ... 

The first and third examples illustrate a nuance of the naming rules. Iron and silver in anionic complexes are named by their Latin roots,/err- and argent-, from which their symbols (Fe and Ag) are derived. Metals taking their Latin names in anionic coordination complexes are listed in Table 20-4. 

Table 20-4 Latin Names of Metals in Anionic Complexes...

The name copper and the symbol Cu are derived from the Latin cuprum, after the island of Cyprus, where the Romans first obtained copper metal. The symbols Ag and Au for silver and gold come from the Latin names for these elements argentum... 

An internationally accepted chemical notation makes use of symbols to represent elements and compounds, and advises on naming chemical compounds. In this notation, the elements are represented by one or two letters, many of which are drawn from the elements Latin or Greek names. The number of atoms of an element in a molecule is represented by a subscript written after the symbol thus Au (the first two letters of aurum, the Latin name for gold) represents an atom of gold Cu (the first two letters of cuprum, the Latin name for copper), an atom of copper and C (the first letter of carbon), an atom of carbon O represents an atom of oxygen and 02, a molecule of oxygen. The symbols listed below provide examples of the presently accepted form of chemical notation ... 

The first alloys made by humans were probably those of copper, namely, bronze and brass, which were already being made during the Chalcolithic period (see Table 33). The most important, however, later became the alloys of iron, known as the ferrous alloys (from the Latin word ferrum, for iron). Since iron ores are one of the most abundant metalliferous ores on the crust of the earth, and its alloys are relatively easy to produce, ferrous alloys have been the most widely used alloys for the last three millennia (see Table 34). 

Copper (chemical symbol Cu, from the Latin name of the metal, cuprum), the metal that in Roman times was known as the Cyprian metal (since much of the metal came from Cyprus), is reddish brown, malleable and ductile, and can be easily shaped by cold- or hot-working techniques (see Fig. 35) (Scott 2002). Native copper occurs mainly in the form of boulders, nuggets, dendrites, and laminar outgrowths. It was certainly in its native form that copper was first recognized and used for over five millennia since then, however, the bulk of copper has been derived from copper ores by a variety... 

Iron (chemical symbol Fe, from the Latin name for the metal, ferrum), the most prominent of all the metals in the history of human technology, is a gray base metal that easily combines with oxygen and becomes corroded (Friend 1926). Its importance is most likely due to a number of factors ... 

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