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• 10 non-trivial symbols: those not from the English element name, like "Hg"

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See also List of chemical element name etymologies#List (= source for this list; as of 18 August 2021)

List (11)

Etymology of non-trivial symbols				{{List of ...}}
Na	11	Chemistry:sodium	"Na": from New Latin natrium, coined from German Natron, 'natron'	§ Na
K	19	Chemistry:potassium	"K": from New Latin kalium	§ K
Fe	26	Chemistry:iron	"Fe": from Latin ferrum	§ Fe
Cu	29	Chemistry:copper	"Cu": from Latin cuprum	§ Cu
Ag	47	Chemistry:silver	"Ag": from Latin argentum	§ Ag
Sn	50	Chemistry:tin	"Sn": from Latin stannum	§ Sn
Sb	51	Chemistry:antimony	"Sb": from Latin stibium 'stibnite'	§ Sb
W	74	Chemistry:tungsten	"W": from Wolfram, originally from Middle High German wolf-rahm 'wolf's foam' describing the mineral wolframite	§ W
Au	79	Chemistry:gold	"Au": from Latin aurum	§ Au
Hg	80	Chemistry:mercury	"Hg": from its Latin name hydrargyrum, itself from Greek hydrárgyros, 'water-silver'	§ Hg
Pb	82	Chemistry:lead	"Pb": from Latin plumbum	§ Pb

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