Question: Where do the symbols of elements come from?
Disambiguated questions and answers: question: Where do the symbols of elements generally come from?
Where do the symbols of the earlier elements come from?
Where do the chinese symbols of elements come from?
Where do the more recent symbols of synthetic elements come from?
Where do the symbols of elements come from, specifically many of the transuranic elements?
answer: normally consist of one or two letters from the Latin alphabet and are written with the first letter capitalised
classical Latin and Greek vocabulary
a dedicated character, usually created for the purpose
very few are named after their discoverers, and even fewer are named after living people
after people
recipients of the Nobel Prize
Natural Questions answer: Latin alphabet (from the Wikipedia article "Symbol (chemistry)")