On modern relevance, and how uses of the elements change, Shakhashiri cites lithium (symbol Li), in the table: "Lithium batteries are very useful to us. Lithium is also used in the medical ...

Some elements have two letters in their symbol, because there are more than 100 elements, but there are only 26 letters in the alphabet, so we have to double some of them up.

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Joint Working Party has announced the official names and symbols of the chemical elements formerly known as 113, 115, 117 and 118.The proposed ...

THIS is a set of cardboard pieces printed with the symbols of elements and common radicles, and graduated in size according to predominant valency; positive radicles are blue, negative are pink.