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Because the world of chemistry doesn't evolve around the English language. Most of the elemental names/symbols on the periodic tables come from the Latin names of that materials.

Gold is called Aurum in Latin, thus the symbol Au....

Another example is Iron with the symbol Fe. Iron is called Ferrum in latin

2007-09-27 08:47:01 · answer #1 · answered by Kevin Y 2 · 3 0

Au is the elemental symbol for gold.

2007-09-27 09:46:22 · answer #2 · answered by itsjunglepat 6 · 0 1

by the way, you may be curious to know that "aurum" survives today in the five major languages descended from latin:

french: or
italian/spanish: oro
portuguese: ouro
romanian: aur

2007-09-28 08:49:11 · answer #3 · answered by smekkleysa 6 · 0 0

Aurum from the latin

2007-09-27 08:51:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Cause if someone stole your Gold you'd shout 'EY YOU!

2007-09-27 08:49:52 · answer #5 · answered by Jerry Thunder 4 · 0 1

Probably it does in Latin

2007-09-27 08:46:03 · answer #6 · answered by shipwreck 7 · 0 0

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