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stands for Ferrum
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It stand for "ferrous" as in ferrous metal.
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The Latin name of iron is Ferrous and the Fe come from there.
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The Latin name of iron is Ferrous. MANY of the element symbols (more often the ones that were discovered years ago) are from their latin names. For example, the sybol for Lead is Pb, which comes from it's latin name "Plumbum". (this was the only one i remembered from school cos the name always made me laugh, hehe)
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