Chemical element symbol
ID chemical_element_symbol
DatatypeNot PIIcategoricalDraft
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Symbol of a chemical element in the periodic table, one capital letter or a capital and a lowercase letter, as in H or Fe. There are 118 named elements. Many other two-letter strings match the pattern, so use the field name or context.
- Categories
- Chemistry, Scientific
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Quality
- 80/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- no tool record lists this type yet
Regular expression
^[A-Z][a-z]?$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| H | Hydrogen |
| Fe | Iron |
| Og | Oganesson, element 118 |
| FE invalid | Second letter in upper case |
Translations
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Russian | Символ химического элемента |
Sources
Use this record
- Page URL:
https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/chemical_element_symbol - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/chemistry/chemical_element_symbol.yamlon GitHub