List of chemical element name etymologies
A variety of chemical elements named after cities, countries or continents. Some can be the origin of their discoverer recognize (eg, scandium and francium ) or it will be honored with the designation important natural scientists (eg einsteinium, curium and Mendelevium ).
Still other elements have retained their original names (eg, gold and iron), but with Latin abbreviations referred to (Au and Fe).
If an element is newly discovered or created, then it gets so long a temporary systematic element name to be agreed for an internationally recognized definitive name of the explorers or producers who are entitled to the Namensgebungsrecht.
A
Surely this derivation is not. There are other assumptions about the origin of the element name. The unusual name goes back to the late Greek anthemon ( = flower). This is to allow stem -like crystals that are arranged in tufts and look like a flower, are described.
B
Barium, but not in pure form, was not established until 1808 by Sir Humphry Davy in England by electrolysis of a mixture of barium oxide and mercury oxide. This prompted the naming of barium after the previously known barite (from the Greek βαρύς: "severe" because of its great density).
Because of the sweet taste of beryllium glucinium the name was used in France to 1957 for the fourth element.
C
D
Like all transactinides Dubnium is exclusively synthesized by particle bombardment. The Russian working group worked here with the bombardment of americium with neon nuclei and suggested for the name Nielsbohrium before, during the American californium and berkelium bombarded with nitrogen and oxygen nuclei and gave him the name Hahnium. After a Elementnamensgebungskontroverse it was established in 1997 after the Russian Nuclear Research Center " Dubna " (Russian: Дубна ) named. Other names were sometimes used for this element were: Unnilpentium ( by the atomic number 105) Hahnium (after Otto Hahn ), Joliotium ( by Irène and Frédéric Joliot- Curie ), Nielsbohrium (after Niels Bohr), eka- tantalum.
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F
G
B
I
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
Systematic names
Elements that are not final yet named, will receive a preliminary systematic element name.
Geographical names
A variety of chemical elements owes its name to geographical names. Striking is the Swedish village Ytterby, after the four elements have the same name.
Specifically, these are the following names:
- America: Americium
- Berkeley (California ): berkelium
- Europe: europium
- Darmstadt: Darmstadium
- Germany: Germanium
- Dubna (Russia): Dubnium
- France: francium, gallium
- Hesse: Hassium
- India: indium ( about the color indigo)
- California: Californium
- Copenhagen: Hafnium
- Livermore (California ): Livermorium
- Paris: Lutetium
- Poland: polonium
- Rhine: rhenium
- Russia: ruthenium, samarium
- Scandinavia: scandium, thulium
- Strontian (Scotland ): Strontium ( about the mineral Stronianit )
- Ytterby (Sweden): erbium, terbium, ytterbium, yttrium
- Cyprus: copper
It is doubtful etymology at:
Named after celestial bodies
Designation by People
A number of chemical elements are named after people, not because they have discovered the element in question, but in order to honor outstanding scientists as:
- Bohrium
- Copernicium
- Curium
- Einsteinium
- Fermium
- Flerovium
- Gadolinium
- Hahnium (former name, grants: Dubnium )
- Lawrencium
- Meitnerium
- Mendelevium
- Nobelium
- Roentgenium
- Rutherfordium
- Seaborgium