TY - JOUR AU - Constable, Edwin C. PY - 2019/10/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - From Glyph to Element Symbol – A Story of Names: Chemical Education JF - CHIMIA JA - Chimia VL - 73 IS - 10 SE - Columns, Conference Reports DO - 10.2533/chimia.2019.837 UR - https://www.chimia.ch/chimia/article/view/2019_837 SP - 837 AB - When I write the symbol Fe, all scientists know that I am talking about iron. Today's chemists use element symbols in formulae without thinking where they came from. This article looks at the history of element symbols and why we use the ones we do. ER -