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- Why is Potassium in French and English not called Kalium?
This fits my native language (dutch), where Potassium is called "Kalium" The same question applies to Sodium (Na), which again in Dutch is called "Natrium" A quick look at Wikipedia showed that Potassium is mainly used as a word in Roman based languages (French, Spanish) and to my surprise in English What is the history behind this?
- Element Names in English - Chemistry Stack Exchange
Na - Sodium - Natrium K - Potassium - Kalium W - Tungsten - Wolfram Sb - Antimony - Stibium and so forth [English only] Why do we not use the names that match the symbols?
- When was the symbol for potassium changed from Ka to K?
The symbol for potassium was mostly K in the English speaking world and even some old German book use K (as early as 1829 search Kalium in this book) So there was no official change from Ka to K, because both symbols were concurrently used in various parts of the world, just one symbol, Ka, wiped out of fashion
- nomenclature - Why do people commonly refer to Na2HPO4 as Sodium . . .
First of all, I am aware of this question The purpose of my question is to understand why people seem to break the rules that IUPAC has set (See example five on page 76 of the book), especially s
- Is there a difference between potassium manganate and permanganate . . .
Is potassium manganate the same as potassium permanganate? Also, I have seen potassium manganate written as potassium manganate (VII) or potassium manganate (VI) What do the roman numerals stan
- Why do the names of most chemical elements end with -um or -ium?
The names sodium and potassium were changed to natrium and kalium All metallic elements discovered after this date ($1811$) have been given names ending in - ium (occasionally - um) Examples are cadmium, lanthanum, lithium, thallium, radium This is also why helium has the suffix The name helium is anomalous
- Gallium Electrolysis - Chemistry Stack Exchange
The school has liquid N2, I'm pretty sure one of my professors would let me try it They've been pretty helpful with this essentially pointless project so far Not sure they'll be as accommodating when the fall semester starts and they have to start teaching again What about the electrolysis set up at room temp forming molten gallium?
- homework - What is the effect of adding HCl on a certain solution at . . .
If we have $$\ce {CH3COOH + H2O <=> CH3COO- + H+}$$ what is the effect on acetate ions when adding each HCl and NaOH to the solution? (State why according to Le Chatelier's principle) Le
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