Why does the element "Mercury" have the chemical symbol "Hg"?

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Zebulon

They forgot how to spell Mercury.

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Annon

A lot of them are like that. Because people like science to be as humanly difficult as possible.

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The Special One

It's for hydrargyrum, the Latin word for Mercury. Like lead (Pb) is derived from plumbum - that Latin word for lead.

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