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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

The image has a stock photo of a chemist with Samuel L. Jackson's head photoshopped on, and he appears to be looking a graduated cylinder with some colored liquid in it.

Near the bottom there's the text "ah, yes".

Below it are two rows that look like they were copied from the periodic table, with atomic numbers at the top, then the abbreviation in the middle and the full name of the element at the bottom.

The first row of elements is Mo, Th, Er (molybdenum, thorium, erbium)

The second row of elements is F, U, C, K, Er (fluorine, uranium, carbon, potassium, erbium)

edit: corrected term to "atomic number"

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Would someone explain me why is "K" the abbreviation of Potassium?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Wikipedia is giving me this:

"Potassium is the chemical element with the symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium)"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Same reason Lead is "Pb" - from the latin name.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

No, its simply because PB lead me to the jelly!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Copper gold and silver too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

As someone who speaks a language in which potassium is "kalium", I want to know how the hell English ended up with potassium

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Because Special K is chock full of potassium!