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- , which means "mine" and which may have common roots with kobold, goblin, and cobalt. (en)
- , who was punished after death by being condemned to stand knee-deep in water. If he bent to drink the water, it drained below the level he could reach . This was considered similar to tantalum's general non-reactivity because of its inertness . (en)
- Named for Europe, where it was discovered. Europe itself was named after the fictional Phoenician princess Europa. (en)
- , which means "new twin", because didymium separated into praseodymium and neodymium. (en)
- Named in honour of Glenn T. Seaborg, who discovered the chemistry of the transuranium elements, shared in the discovery and isolation of ten elements, and developed and proposed the actinide series. (en)
- Named in honour of Albert Einstein, for his work on theoretical physics, which included the photoelectric effect. (en)
- , "colour", because of its multicoloured compounds. This word was adapted as the French (en)
- γείνομαι , meaning "Ι bring forth acid", as it was believed to be an essential component of acids. This phrase was corrupted into the French (en)
- Named in honour of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite and instituted the Nobel Prizes foundation. (en)
- , meaning "copper-coloured ore". This referred to the ore niccolite from which it was obtained. (en)
- , which means "light bearer", because white phosphorus emits a faint glow upon exposure to oxygen. (en)
- The word came into Middle English from Anglo-Norman (en)
- , approximately meaning "opposed to solitude", as believed never to exist in pure form, or (en)
- Named in honour of Lise Meitner, who shared discovery of nuclear fission. (en)
- , which means "artificial", because it was the first artificially produced element. (en)
- , which means "a green shoot ", because of its bright-green spectral emission lines. (en)
- , where important work for one of the steps to synthesise the element was done in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. (en)
- , ultimately from Ancient Greek region Magnesia. The word Magnesia evolved into (en)
- From the Swedish and Danish "tung sten", which means "heavy stone". (en)
- , "Earth". (en)
- , "I escape notice". (en)
- , "Scandinavia". (en)
- , "Stockholm". (en)
- , "a blue-green spar", from Prakrit (en)
- , "lead", due to confusion with lead ore galena. (en)
- , Anglo-Norman (en)
- , Old English (en)
- , Old Prussian (en)
- , West Germanic (en)
- , and Middle English (en)
- , and means "white mass", due to its appearance. (en)
- , but he denied that this had been his intention. (en)
- , derived from the Greek (en)
- , from Greek (en)
- , from Latin (en)
- , from Pāli (en)
- , itself derived through Old French (en)
- , meaning "I form/beget native-soda ". (en)
- , meaning "charcoal" and is related to (en)
- , meaning "new". (en)
- , meaning "of Pallas". (en)
- , meaning "unstable". (en)
- , meaning "Ι beget water". (en)
- , perhaps from (en)
- , the French name of the Belgian town of Kelmis. (en)
- , the city of Paris. (en)
- , the river Rhine. (en)
- , which became the source of the English "boron". (en)
- , which became the source of the English "oxygen". (en)
- , which in turn came from Latin (en)
- , which is adapted from Syriac (en)
- , which is derived from Greek (en)
- , which is the source for the English arsenic. (en)
- , which is the source of the English "iodine". (en)
- , which means "Gaul" , and also (en)
- , which means "Germany". (en)
- , which means "alum" . (en)
- , which means "beam ". (en)
- , which means "flint", a kind of stone . (en)
- , which means "gold-like". (en)
- , which means "hard to get at". (en)
- , which means "pot ashes". (en)
- , which means "rose". From its rose-red compounds. (en)
- From the Anglo-Saxon, which was derived from Proto-Germanic (en)
- , which means "hidden one", because of its colourless, odorless, tasteless, gaseous properties, as well as its rarity in nature. (en)
- . Derived from Persian (en)
- . From Proto-Indo-European "to burn" (en)
- . Platina is a diminutive of (en)
- . The Arabic was adapted as Medieval Latin (en)
- . The Latin term, during the Roman Empire, was (en)
- Named in honour of Niels Bohr, who made fundamental contributions to the understanding of atomic structure and quantum mechanics. (en)
- Named after Poland, homeland of discoverer Marie Curie. (en)
- , which means "little silver", because it was first encountered in a silver mine. The modern Spanish is (en)
- Named for the University of California, Berkeley, where it was discovered. The city of Berkeley itself was named after George Berkeley. (en)
- Named after the US state of Tennessee, itself named after the Cherokee village of (en)
- Named after strontianite, the mineral. Strontianite itself was named after the town of Strontian where the mineral was found; (en)
- Named after Thule, an ancient Roman and Greek name for a mythical country in the far north, perhaps Scandinavia. (en)
- Named after the asteroid Ceres, discovered two years earlier. The asteroid itself, now classified as a dwarf planet, was named after Ceres, the goddess of fertility in Roman mythology. (en)
- Named after Pallas, the asteroid discovered two years earlier. The asteroid itself was named after Pallas Athena, goddess of wisdom and victory. The word Palladium is derived from Greek (en)
- For the "Titans", the first sons of Gaia in Greek mythology. (en)
- : "Copenhagen", Denmark. (en)
- : "blue dye from India". (en)
- : "foreign", "a stranger". (en)
- ; and has cognates in Balto-Slavic languages: (en)
- ; compare Old High German (en)
- ; it is a loan word from French (en)
- is the German variant of these and is the origin of the English zircon. (en)
- , a god associated with thunder in Norse mythology. (en)
- Phosphorus was the ancient name for Venus, or Hesperus, the Morning Star. (en)
- Named after the mineral samarskite, itself named after Colonel Vassili Samarsky-Bykhovets, a Russian mine official. (en)
- , which means "rooster". The element was obtained as free metal by Lecoq de Boisbaudran, who named it after his native land France. Allegations were later made that he had also named it for himself, as (en)
- From Arabic (en)
- From French (en)
- From German (en)
- From Greek (en)
- From Greek "first" + Neo-Latin (en)
- From Latin (en)
- From Old Norse (en)
- From the Anglo-Saxon (en)
- From the Arabic (en)
- From the English "potash", which means "pot-ash" . (en)
- From the French (en)
- From the Greek adjective (en)
- From the Spanish, (en)
- From the Swedish (en)
- Greek means "inactive" . (en)
- Named after the planet Uranus, which had been discovered eight years earlier in 1781. The planet was named after the god Uranus, the god of sky and heaven in Greek mythology. (en)
- Named after Prometheus , who stole the fire of heaven and gave it to mankind. (en)
- Named after the Greek (en)
- Named after the Latin (en)
- Named after the Latin noun (en)
- Named for France , where it was discovered . (en)
- Named from Latin (en)
- Named in honour of Nicolaus Copernicus. (en)
- is derived from Proto-Indo-European ' from base ' meaning "to grow". (en)
- Possibly derived from Greek (en)
- Possibly from Greek (en)
- Potash is a literal translation of the Dutch (en)
- Named after Moscow Oblast, where the element was discovered. (en)
- The word '' (en)
- From the Anglo-Saxon "gold", from Proto-Indo-European meaning "yellow/ bright". (en)
- Named after Ytterby, Sweden, where large concentrations of minerals yttria and erbia are located. Erbia and terbia were confused at this time. After 1860, what had been known as terbia was renamed erbia, and after 1877, what had been known as erbia was renamed terbia. (en)
- and means "calamine", a cadmium-bearing mixture of minerals. Cadmium is named after Cadmus , a character in Greek mythology and calamine is derived from (en)
- From the English "soda", used in names for sodium compounds such as caustic soda, soda ash, and baking soda. Probably from Italian (en)
- and Dutch (en)
- and Latin (en)
- and Old French (en)
- and Persian (en)
- and is the neuter version of (en)
- and is the origin of the English "plate". (en)
- Named after the mineral yttria , where it was originally extracted from. Yttria itself was named after Ytterby, Sweden. (en)
- derived from Greek (en)
- Named in honour of Georgy Flyorov, who was at the forefront of Soviet nuclear physics and founder of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, where the element was discovered. (en)
- Named in honour of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which collaborated in the discovery and is in Livermore, California, in turn named after the rancher Robert Livermore. (en)
- from Late Latin (en)
- Named for Dubna, Russia, location of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research where it was discovered. (en)
- in French. (en)
- in Italian and into (en)
- is Latin for (en)
- is derived from German (en)
- is related to the word (en)
- Named after indigo, because of an indigo-coloured spectrum line. The English word indigo is from Spanish (en)
- Named for the state of California, US, and for the University of California, Berkeley. The origin of the state's name itself is disputed. (en)
- meaning "holy metal" or "strong metal". (en)
- meaning "ray", because of its radioactivity. (en)
- meaning "wealth". (en)
- means "stench" , due to its characteristic smell. (en)
- Named after , where the element was discovered at the Riken research institute. (en)
- meaning "a kind of saltwort", from which soda was obtained, of uncertain origin. (en)
- or Provençal (en)
- , which means "rainbow, iris plant, iris of the eye", because many of its salts are strongly coloured; Iris was originally the name of the goddess of rainbows and a messenger in Greek mythology. (en)
- via Latin (en)
- which is derived from Proto-Germanic (en)
- which is related to (en)
- , which means "yellowish green" or "greenish yellow", because of the colour of the gas. (en)
- literally means "nose ['point'] of the fairy hill". (en)
- Named in honour of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, who discovered and produced X-rays. (en)
- Contraction of radium emanation, since the element appears in the radioactive decay of radium. (en)
- was the generic term for copper alloys such as bronze. means "Cyprus" or "which is from Cyprus", where so much of it was mined; it was simplified to and then eventually Anglicized as "copper" . (en)
- , and adding the suffix created the English "chromium". (en)
- From Latin Ruthenia, geographical exonym for Kievan Rus'. (en)
- Named in honour of Enrico Fermi, who developed the first nuclear reactor, quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics. (en)
- means "heavy". The oxide was initially called "barote", then "baryta", which was modified to "barium" to describe the metal. Sir Humphry Davy gave the element this name because it was originally found in baryte, which shares the same source. (en)
- meaning "stone", because it was discovered from a mineral while other common alkali metals were discovered from plant tissue. (en)
- Named after the dwarf planet Pluto , because it was discovered directly after element neptunium and is higher than element uranium in the periodic table. Thus, plutonium was named by analogy with the ordering of the planets, ending with Pluto. Pluto itself was named after Pluto, a Greek god of the dead. Greek (en)
- Named in honour of Marie and Pierre Curie, who discovered radium and researched radioactivity. (en)
- , meaning "the sun" or the mythological sun-god. It was first identified by its characteristic emission lines in the Sun's spectrum. (en)
- Named after Ytterby, the village in Sweden where the element was first discovered. (en)
- , meaning "a coal". These words were derived from the Proto-Indo-European base meaning "heat", "fire", or "to burn". (en)
- , which means "deepest red", because of the colour of a spectral line. (en)
- Named for the Americas, because it was discovered in the United States; by analogy with europium . The name of the continent America itself is derived from the name of the Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci. (en)
- , meaning Hessen, the German state where it was discovered at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt. (en)
- , "yellow orpiment". The Greek is paretymologically related to the Greek word (en)
- , which means "lime". Calcium was known as early as the first century when the Ancient Romans prepared lime as calcium oxide. (en)
- Named after Mercury, the god of speed and messenger of the Gods, as was the planet Mercury named after the god. (en)
- '' is borrowed from a Proto-Indo-European language, and has cognates in several Germanic and Celtic languages. (en)
- Named in honour of Dmitri Mendeleyev, who invented periodic table. (en)
- Alternatively, possibly from one of the Pre-Indo-European languages, compare (en)
- , which refers to borax. Possibly derived from Persian (en)
- "ray": protoactinium, later shortened to protactinium. (en)
- meaning "a flowing", from mineral name fluorspar . Fluorspar was used to make iron flowing in smelting. (en)
- for "monk-killer" , because many early alchemists were monks, and antimony is poisonous. This may also be derived from the Pharaonic , , which could be translated as "bloom of the god Ammo". (en)
- Named after Niobe, daughter of Tantalus in classical mythology. (en)
- Named in honour of Ernest Lawrence, who was involved in the development of the cyclotron. (en)
- Named after ytterbia, the oxide compound of ytterbium. Ytterbia itself was named after Ytterby, Sweden. (en)
- Named in honour of Ernest Rutherford, who pioneered the Bohr model of the atom. Rutherfordium has also been called kurchatovium , named in honour of Igor Vasilevich Kurchatov, who helped develop understanding of the uranium chain reaction and the nuclear reactor. (en)
- , which means "goblin". The metal was named by miners, because it was poisonous and troublesome . Other sources cite the origin in the silver miners' belief that cobalt had been placed by "Kobolds", who had stolen the silver. Some suggest that the name may have been derived from Greek (en)
- , meaning "a smell", as osmium tetroxide is foul-smelling. (en)
- Possibly borrowed from Akkadian LANG "refined silver" and related to LANG "to refine", "smelt". (en)
- , which means "Moon", and also moon-goddess Selene. (en)
- , which means "violet", because of the colour of the gaseous phase. This word was adapted as the French (en)
- , which means "sky blue". Its identification was based upon the bright-blue lines in its spectrum, and it was the first element discovered by spectrum analysis. (en)
- , denoting beryl, which contains beryllium. The word is derived from the Greek (en)
- "prong, point", probably alluding to its spiky crystals. May be derived from Old Persian. (en)
- From the Ancient Greek Μαγνησία , where it was discovered. (en)
- Named for Darmstadt, where it was discovered at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research. (en)
- , which means "masculine" or "potent". These words were adapted as the Latin (en)
- Named in honour of Johan Gadolin, who was one of the founders of Nordic chemistry research, and who discovered [[#Y (en)
- Named for Neptune, the planet. The planet itself was named after the god Neptune, the god of oceans in Roman mythology. (en)
- : "to become pale", in reference to the pale semiprecious gemstone beryl. (en)
- , meaning "green twin", because didymium separates into praseodymium and neodymium. (en)
- Named after Yuri Oganessian, a great contributor to the field of synthesizing superheavy elements. (en)
- , one of the names of the Vanr goddess Freyja in Norse mythology, because of multicoloured chemical compounds deemed beautiful. (en)
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