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They seem to be using Na as a justification for using N, since the other chemical symbols don't match the acronym either. Unless they're just using the first le
by rovek 8y ago
They seem to be using Na as a justification for using N, since the other chemical symbols don't match the acronym either. Unless they're just using the first letter of each symbol, either way it's not a great name.
- chrismorgan 8y agoIf you use the Latin name for sodium, it flows much more clearly: ZBLAN: Zirconium, Barium, Lanthanum, Aluminium, Natrium. My grandmother, who was a pharmacist, prefers to call it natrium rather than sodium. I don’t know if there are any industries or similar where it’s commonly called natrium. The sentence would have read better if the aside had instead been rendered “(sodium is also known as natrium)” or similar.
- jacobush 8y agoSome languages use natrium instead of sodium.
- yorwba 8y agoI did some statistics on the translations at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sodium#Translations https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sodium#Translations Of 107 unique language-word pairs (some languages have multiple words for sodium) there are 53 starting with [nNнν], all of which are some variation of natrium (they are in 51 languages because Icelandic and Roman have two variants each). Likewise, there are 37 starting with [sṣ], all of which are some variation of sodium. The remaining 17 are either different or no transliteration is available to check.
- plopz 8y agoFun fact that I recently learned, the person who named aluminum was Humphry Davy and he originally suggested "alumium" but ended up choosing "aluminum".
- ConceptJunkie 8y agoIt would be interesting to find out how that became "aluminium" in England. Perhaps they were more interested in retaining the "ium" suffix.
- lorenzhs 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Etymology
- Bud 8y agoMight want to review what an acronym is. :)