Question

What is a chemical symbol of an element? What information does it convey?

Answer 1

A chemical symbol is the short form which stands for an atom of a specific element or the abbreviations used for the names of elements.

• It represents a specific element.

• It represents one atom of an element.

• A symbol represents how many atoms are present in one gram (gm) atom.

• The chemical symbol of an element represents the mass of an atom of that element.