In chemistry we were going through the periodic table. When showing the atomic symbol for gold he asked if anyone knew why it was Au. I wasn't the one to answer, but I knew why it was like that. I knew that Aurum was gold in Latin, so when they were coming up with the atomic symbol for gold they used the first 2 letters from the Latin word for gold. Knowing that made me feel like I knew a little better about chemistry as a whole, and that Latin may help me further down the line in Chemistry.
Sam Robinson
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