It happens all over the periodic table. The chemical symbol for lead ... high school cracked up every time she referred to the symbol for tungsten—that big, fat, unaccountable W.

The periodic table, also called the periodic table ... internationally and are sometimes unexpected. For example, the symbol for tungsten is "W" because another name for that element is wolfram.

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Every element in the periodic table is represented by a unique ... W is actually the element tungsten, and the W symbol comes from the mineral in which tungsten is found called wolframite.

The chemical symbol for oxygen is O ... “One answer lies in the cosmopolitan nature of the periodic table,” Kean wrote at Slate a few years ago. The chemical elements were discovered and ...