Partial-thickness burns (2nd degree burns)-- affect the top 2 layers of skin. Most notable by blisters (which may develop quickly or take 24 hours to form), but also red, mottled, wet and painful skin. Full-thickness burns (3rd degree burn)-- all three layers of skin affected; leathery, dry, charred, gray.
1 Discoveror: known since ancient times. 2  Place of discovery: not known. 3  Date of discovery: unknown. 4  Origin of name: from the Anglo-Saxon word  gold  (the origin of the symbol Au is the Latin word  aurum  meaning  gold ).
The Latin names of these elements are commemorated in their atomic symbols, Au (aurum) for gold and Fe (ferrum) for iron. The Romans began the practise of element names ending in -um, with Victorian scientists continuing the trend.