CHNOPS

In hmolscience, CHNOPS, or CHNOSP (Ostwald, 1926), is shorthand notation, generally introduced by Frank Thone (1936), for the six base elements, namely: carbon ${\ce {C}}$, hydrogen ${\ce {H}}$, nitrogen ${\ce {N}}$, oxygen ${\ce {O}}$, phosphorus ${\ce {P}}$, and sulfur ${\ce {S}}$, arranged according to Hill order (Hill, 1900), common to mass compositions animate organisms, e.g. bacteria to humans, aka biological things, defunct terminology layspeak.

See also

• CHNOPS+20E

External links

• CHNOPS → CHON – Wikipedia.