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I found a reddit post why sodium and potassium have 2 names:
That's almost as much fun as Davy pointlessly waffling between alumium, aluminum, and aluminium till we once again ended up with people who speak the same language using different terms.
In German, we also have "Pottasche" as the trivial name of potassium carbonate
Note Asche = ash
And pot=pot, so potassium is 'from the ashpot' which was how kalium salts were extracted, by adding water to wood ash, then filtering and evaporating the water off.
Is that why potassium is K on the periodic table?
And now that I think about it, sodium is Na..
Damnit, our educational system has been telling us we are wrong the whole time! Sneaky bullshit!
Berzelius was an asshole. Antimony is Antimon* in most languages, even in German, but he chose Sb from Latin stibium
Found one more, with a similar double name, but there he used at least the German name: Tungsten (W) is Wolfram in German
There are also Sn (Stannous) for Tin, Pb (Plumbum) for Lead, Fe (Ferrum) for Iron, Hg (Hydrargyrum) for Mercury, Au (Aurum) for Gold and Ag (Argentum) for Silver.
Those are just the Latin names for already known elements. Not quite the same difference imo.
Jöns was swedish, not swiss.
Switzerland and Sweden aren't the same country? Well God damnit, there goes my dream vacation of visiting the home of Ikea and chocolate.
Wait, now which one of them am I supposed to refer to as Swaziland?