Have you never wondered why the symbol is W? Is the same thing with potassium. The K is for kalium or kalij or something along those lines. And lead Pb for plumbum.
I’m broadly not super familiar with the the periodic table. We covered it in highschool but I sucked at memorizing stuff and never took the time to look up all the different unusual letter choices for various elements
Honestly it probably would have helped me remember if we’d learned their other names 😅
Yeah I might have got it if english called tungsten wolfram like many other languages do.
I had no idea that was a thing…
Thanks for teaching me something!
Have you never wondered why the symbol is W? Is the same thing with potassium. The K is for kalium or kalij or something along those lines. And lead Pb for plumbum.
I’m broadly not super familiar with the the periodic table. We covered it in highschool but I sucked at memorizing stuff and never took the time to look up all the different unusual letter choices for various elements
Honestly it probably would have helped me remember if we’d learned their other names 😅