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Please identify this symbol

zhen_roguezhen_rogue Registered User regular
edited June 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
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Someone contacted me through Gmail, and their profile had this symbol as an image.
I have absolutely no idea what it is.

Can anyone give me the reference or origin?

Thanks in advance.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    edited June 2007
    I think I've seen that somewhere in Warhammer 40k.

    edit: I may be thinking a bit too much about Eldar runes, but I know I've seen just that one somewhere...

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  • FeralFeral ＭＥＭＥＴＩＣＨＡＲＩＺＡＲＤ interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Your best bet is to ask the person what it's from. Just because we might find a historical meaning for it doesn't mean it represents the same thing for that person. Hell, it might represent a rock band for all we know.

    That said, I love symbols, so I'll take a stab at it. I'd be willing to put money down that it's an alchemical symbol.

    The upside-down triangle in alchemy represents water, so reagents that they considered to be water-based were represented by an upside-down triangle combined with some other symbol. (Take a look at the symbols for arsenicicum rubrum, a metallic salt of arsenic, down at the bottom of this page, for a very similar symbol.)

    Edit: found it. It's arsenic. http://chemistry.about.com/od/alchemicalsymbols/a/alchemyas.htm

    Feral on
    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    edited June 2007
    Doh, should have thought of alchemy too. But I'm too much of a wargaming nerd. :P

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  • zhen_roguezhen_rogue Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Feral wrote: »
    Your best bet is to ask the person what it's from. Just because we might find a historical meaning for it doesn't mean it represents the same thing for that person. Hell, it might represent a rock band for all we know.

    That said, I love symbols, so I'll take a stab at it. I'd be willing to put money down that it's an alchemical symbol.

    The upside-down triangle in alchemy represents water, so reagents that they considered to be water-based were represented by an upside-down triangle combined with some other symbol. (Take a look at the symbols for arsenicicum rubrum, a metallic salt of arsenic, down at the bottom of this page, for a very similar symbol.)

    Edit: found it. It's arsenic. http://chemistry.about.com/od/alchemicalsymbols/a/alchemyas.htm

    Brilliant deduction, thanks for the help!

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