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Thus the sign for iron became Fe (from Latin ferrum ), for gold, Au ( aurum ), for silver, Ag ( argentum ), for copper Cu (cuprum) , for lead, Pb ( plumbum —until steel replaced lead pipe for waterworks, plumbers were, and had been since Roman times, workers in lead).
The Latin plumbum weight gives us the symbol, Pb (along with words like plumb, plumb bob , and plumber one who works with lead and lead pipes.
(The Romans called tin plumbum album — white lead.)