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What is a chemical symbol

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A chemical symbol is an abbreviation of the name of a chemical element. For an example like potassium in the periodic table the symbol for it is K
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A chemical symbol is an abbreviation for a chemical element on the periodic table. For example, the chemical symbol for Hydrogen is H.
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