when you convert word equations into symbol equations are the symbols for the elements different in france? or do you

Question: when you convert word equations into symbol equations are the symbols for the elements different in france? or do you do it in a different way?
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Asked by anon-227000 to Thibaut "Tibo" on 16 Nov 2019.
- Thibaut Deviese answered on 16 Nov 2019:
  
  This is a very interesting question. The symbols remain the same as the English ones. Nitrogen, for example, is called “Azote” in French but we keep the symbol N.

anon-227000 commented on 16 Nov 2019:

Ok, is everything the same then but not the element name ?

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- Thibaut "Tibo" commented on 18 Nov 2019:
  
  For the equations, yes, everything else is the same.
  Concentrations, temperatures, volumes, masses etc are using the same abbreviations (luckily!)
  
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Georgia commented on 17 Nov 2019:

For the first week that I was studyong in french I got so confused in my lectures trying to work out what ‘azote’ was until someone wrote it down and I could check Google translate!

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- Thibaut "Tibo" commented on 18 Nov 2019:
  
  and how is your French now?
  
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Aimee commented on 18 Nov 2019:

One of our main clients is german so we have a german-english chemistry dictionary in the office for just such an occasion!

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Question: when you convert word equations into symbol equations are the symbols for the elements different in france? or do you do it in a different way?