CHEMICAL ELEMENTS AND THEIR SYMBOLS

There may be some time in your life when you need to know the symbol for a particular chemical element or to find out what element a symbol represents. Hopefully, the following table will provide the answers.

If you need to learn these for a forthcoming exam you can use this test to help you revise.

ELEMENT	SYMBOL	ELEMENT	SYMBOL
actinium	Ac	mendelivium	Md
aluminium	Al	mercury	Hg
americium	Am	molybdenum	Mo
antimony	Sb	neodymium	Nd
argon	Ar	neon	Ne
arsenic	As	neptunium	Np
astatine	At	nickel	Ni
barium	Ba	niobium	Nb
berkelium	Bk	nitrogen	N
beryllium	Be	nobelium	No
bismuth	Bi	osmium	Os
boron	B	oxygen	O
bromine	Br	palladium	Pd
cadmium	Cd	phosphorus	P
caesium	Cs	platinum	Pt
calcium	Ca	plutonium	Pu
californium	Cf	polonium	Po
carbon	C	potassium	K
cerium	Ce	praseodymium	Pr
chlorine	Cl	promethium	Pm
chromium	Cr	protactinium	Pa
cobalt	Co	radium	Ra
copper	Cu	radon	Rn
curium	Cm	rhenium	Re
dysprosium	Dy	rhodium	Rh
einsteinium	Es	rubidium	Rb
erbium	Er	ruthenium	Ru
europium	Eu	rutherfordium	Rf
fermium	Fm	samarium	Sm
fluorine	F	scandium	Sc
francium	Fr	selenium	Se
gadolinium	Gd	silicon	Si
gallium	Ga	silver	Ag
germanium	Ge	sodium	Na
gold	Au	strontium	Sr
hafnium	Hf	sulphur	S
hahnium	Ha	tantalum	Ta
helium	He	technetium	Tc
holmium	Ho	tellurium	Te
hydrogen	H	terbium	Tb
indium	In	thallium	Tl
iodine	I	thorium	Th
iridium	Ir	thulium	Tm
iron	Fe	tin	Sn
krypton	Kr	titanium	Ti
kurchatovium	Ku	tungsten	W
lanthanum	La	uranium	U
lawrencium	Lr	vanadium	V
lead	Pb	xenon	Xe
lithium	Li	ytterbium	Yb
lutetium	Lu	yttrium	Y
magnesium	Mg	zinc	Zn
manganese	Mn	zirconium	Zr

Why not take our chemical element and symbol test to see how many of the symbols you can remember?

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