The image has a stock photo of a chemist with Samuel L. Jackson’s head photoshopped on, and he appears to be looking a graduated cylinder with some colored liquid in it.
Near the bottom there’s the text “ah, yes”.
Below it are two rows that look like they were copied from the periodic table, with atomic numbers at the top, then the abbreviation in the middle and the full name of the element at the bottom.
The first row of elements is Mo, Th, Er (molybdenum, thorium, erbium)
The second row of elements is F, U, C, K, Er (fluorine, uranium, carbon, potassium, erbium)
edit: corrected term to “atomic number”
Those numbers are the atomic numbers; they indicate how many protons an atom of that element contains.
Ah, thank you. Been a while since high school chemistry and I was too lazy to check just for a meme post 😅
Now go watch this.
Would someone explain me why is “K” the abbreviation of Potassium?
Because Special K is chock full of potassium!
Wikipedia is giving me this:
“Potassium is the chemical element with the symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium)”
Same reason Lead is “Pb” - from the latin name.
Copper gold and silver too
No, its simply because PB lead me to the jelly!
As someone who speaks a language in which potassium is “kalium”, I want to know how the hell English ended up with potassium
