The symbol is derived from the Latin.

Latin name of sodium potassium. Sodium - N aPotassium - KIron - F eCopper - C uMercury - H gSilver - Ag. National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST. Potassium Kalium which is.

Sodium is the main cation in the body fluid outside the cells such as blood and interstitial fluid extracellular and potassium is the main cation in the body cells intracellular. Sodium is a chemical element that quickly reacts with water and has a strong reaction. There are eleven elements represented in the periodic table by letters not in line with their names.

4 rows Latin name includes. The English and French-speaking countries adopted Davy and Gay-LussacThénards name Potassium whereas the Germanic countries adopted GilbertKlaproths name Kalium. Start studying 11 Elements with Latin names.

It was then renamed Kalium in Germanic countries because of a previous naming proposal by Klaproth who was the first to show that potassium carbonate and sodium carbonate were different. A soft waxy silvery reactive metal that is never found unbound in nature. Systema Periodicum Most of the more recently discovered elements last two hundred years or so are o.

Potassium was called Potassium and Sodium Sodium by Humphry Davy who first isolated both. An element symbol K with an atomic number of 19 and atomic weight of 390983. 12 rows Latin Name.

Heres a list of translations. More Latin words for potassium. Similarly for iron it is from ferrum and for silver it.