Write difference between Dalton's atomic symbols & Berzelius atomic symbols with examples.
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DALTON ATOMIC SYMBOLS : DALTON'S symbols included circles containing distinct symbols (a dot for hydrogen, a cross for sulfur), or circles containing letters (C for copper, L for lead). He used them singly to represent elements and in combination to show compounds. However, these are not the ones we use today.
BERZELIUS ATOMIC SYMBOLS: example, carbon would be denoted as C and oxygen as O. If elements had the same first letter, such as gold ( aurum ) and silver ( argentum ), Berzelius decided that the symbol would be the first two letters of the name: Thus, gold would be known as Au and silver as Ag.
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