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Would someone explain me why is "K" the abbreviation of Potassium?
Wikipedia is giving me this:
"Potassium is the chemical element with the symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium)"
Same reason Lead is "Pb" - from the latin name.
No, its simply because PB lead me to the jelly!
Copper gold and silver too
As someone who speaks a language in which potassium is "kalium", I want to know how the hell English ended up with potassium
Because Special K is chock full of potassium!