chlorine Ө (i'm using a Cyrillic letter here, but the symbol is virtually identical it's the alchemic symbol for salt, which is apparently the most common compound of chlorine). oxygen (a triangle, e.g, the alchemic symbol for fire while air is more obvious, fire depends on oxygen and it's also partly based on the defunct phlogiston theory, which relates to combustion and was superseded by oxygen, iirc).barium (this is actually another symbol for phosphorus, because barium has phosphorescent glowing qualities).hydrogen (an inverted triangle, e.g., the alchemic symbol for water).phosphorus (an inverted pentagram apparently the name comes from the Greek Φωσφόρος, "light-bearer," which is translated into Latin as Lucifer).zinc (only one of these will be used i'm currently leaning towards using the one on the far right).carbon (this is a symbol for coal, which is ultimately where the word "carbon" comes from).iron (this is actually an alternate symbol for the planet Mars iron is associated with Mars the deity, and i honestly wanted to avoid using the Mars sign since it already has much more universal associations with the male gender for the same reason, copper's association with Venus is avoided by not using the Venus sign).here's what i have, in order of discovery (ones which can't be posted directly are linked or described): Luckily, i was able to come up with symbols for all of the pre-1789 elements except for cobalt. What i'm having trouble deciding on right now, though, is where the symbols of the four classical elements fit in: wherever possible i'll be using astronomical signs, and maybe astrological ones, too. i have a decent set of them in the word document that i'm organizing all this into, and at the moment am mainly looking for where they'll be going. Now, for the most part, i started this thread so that i can pose some questions as to what symbols i can/should use for certain elements. specifically alchemical/archaic names are used for all elements discovered before the time of Nicholas Flamel (i figured he was as good a standard to use as any), though the only options that have really presented themselves in this case are "cyprium" (instead of "copper"), "argentum" (silver), "athimar/astimmi" (antimony), "hydrargyrum/quicksilver" (mercury), and "spelter" (zinc) all elements discovered after 1789 use letter designations, though some may have different names due to the butterflies of other changes (ex: einsteinium would either have a different name or not be discovered at all by TTL's present-day due to differences with the development of nuclear weapons) all elements discovered before 1789, when Antoine Lavoisier published the first periodic table, use alchemical symbols (though many will have to be made up since not all of the elements discovered before then were ascribed a symbol IOTL I revisited this post of mine recently and decided to put some more effort into it (though i can't make an updated version of the table because i still haven't found my Photoshop disk)
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