Lafiel on 07 May 2013
| Mnementh said: Gold has the element name 'AU' for Aurum. The names in the periodic table aren't based on english. |
yea.. you know, I pointed that out myself in this very thread
english terms usually are very close to the latin ones (gold, silver and iron for example being notable exceptions), so I'm still convinced people could have deduced it's nitrogen (the only of the 4 options that started with an N) just from knowing that the element has the letter N in the periodic table - I'm sure all of those who had to look up the term did know N was used for "stickstoff"
