But sometimes the symbol comes from a name for the element that is not an English word. For example, Lead is a chemical element with the symbol Pb (from the Latin for lead, plumbum).W stands for ...

Copper has been used by humans for as much as 7000 years and elements such as gold, silver, tin, lead and mercury have been known for many thousands of years. However, the first scientific ...

Uranium (chemical symbol U) is a naturally occurring radioactive element. In its pure form it is a silver-coloured heavy metal, similar to lead, cadmium and tungsten. Like tungsten it is very dense, ...