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Elements Named After Different Colors

This document discusses elements that are named after various things including colors, people, heavenly bodies, and places. Some elements are named after colors in their Latin or Greek names like chromium from "khroma" meaning color. Others are named after influential scientists who discovered or worked with the element such as curium being named after Pierre and Marie Curie. Place names also provide the root of several element names like americium from America and scandium from the Latin name for Scandinavia.

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Elements Named After Different Colors

This document discusses elements that are named after various things including colors, people, heavenly bodies, and places. Some elements are named after colors in their Latin or Greek names like chromium from "khroma" meaning color. Others are named after influential scientists who discovered or worked with the element such as curium being named after Pierre and Marie Curie. Place names also provide the root of several element names like americium from America and scandium from the Latin name for Scandinavia.

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Elements named after colors

1. Chromium(Cr, 24): Khroma (Greek) for color


2. Chlorine (Cl,17): Khloros (Greek) for yellow green
3. Iodine (I, 55): Ioeides (Greek) means violet
4. Rhodium (Rh, 45): Rhodon (Greek) means rose
5. Iridium (Ir, 77): Iris (Greek meaning rainbow)
6. Cesium (Cs, 55) : Caesius (Latin), which the ancients used to designate
the blue of the upper part of the firmament.
7. Rubidium (Rb, 37) fromRubidus (Latin) which, with the ancients, served
to designate the deepest red.
8. Thallium (Tl, 81): Thallus (Latin) means sprouting green twig.
9. Indium (In, 49): Indicum (Latin) means indigo.

Elements named after people


1. Bohrium (Bh, 107) – Niels Bohr
2. Curium (Cm, 96) – Pierre and Marie Curie
3. Einsteinium (Es, 99) – Albert Einstein
4. Fermium (Fm, 100) – Enrico Fermi
5. Gallium (Ga, 31) – both named after Gallia (Latin for France) and its
discoverer, Lecoq de Boisbaudran (le coq, the French word for 'rooster'
translates to gallus in Latin)
6. Lawrencium (Lr, 103) – Ernest Lawrence
7. Meitnerium (Mt, 109) – Lise Meitner
8. Mendelevium (Md, 101) – Dmitri Mendeleev
9. Nobelium (No, 102) – Alfred Nobel
10. Roentgenium (Rg, 111) – Wilhelm Roentgen(formerly Ununumium)
11. Rutherfordium (Rf, 104) – Ernest Rutherford
12. Seaborgium (Sg, 106) – Glenn T. Seaborg
13. Samarium (Sm, 62) - Discovered in 1879. Named for Vasili
Samarsky-Bykhovets, the first person to have an element named after
himself, was a 19th century Russian mining engineer.

Elements named after heavenly


bodies
1. Cerium – Ceres, the first asteroid to be discovered. Roman goddess of
grain, similar to the Greek’s Demeter.
2. Helium – Helios, the Greek name for the Sun
3. Mercury – Mercury, a planet. Winged Roman god of travel.
4. Neptunium – Neptune, a blue planet. Roman god of the sea.
5. Palladium – Pallas, the second asteroid to be discovered. Greek name
given to Athena after she killed a playmate named Pallas or, according
to some legends, the giant Pallas. Palladium was also the name of a
sacred image kept in the temple of Athena at Troy.
6. Plutonium – Pluto, a planet. Roman god of the underworld, said to be
able to render himself invisible.
7. Selenium – Selene, the Greek name for the Moon.
8. Tellurium – Tellus, the Latin name for the Earth. Roman earth goddess;
also called Terra Mater, similar to the Greek’s Gaea.
9. Uranium – Uranus, a planet. Greek god of the heavens, son of Gaea.
10. Phosphorus - Gr., phosphoros, light-bearing; a named applied to
the planet Venus when appearing as a morning star

Elements named after places


1. Americium – America, the Americas
2. Berkelium – University of California at Berkeley
3. Californium – State of California and University of California at
Berkeley
4. Copper - probably named for Cyprus
5. Darmstadtium – Darmstadt, Germany
6. Dubnium – Dubna, Russia
7. Erbium – Ytterby, a town in Sweden
8. Francium – France
9. Gallium – Gallia, Latin for France. Also named for Lecoq de
Boisbaudran, the element's discoverer (Lecoq in Latin is gallus)
10. Germanium – Germany
11. Hafnium – Hafnia, Latin for Copenhagen
12. Hassium – Hesse, Germany
13. Holmium – Holmia, Latin for Stockholm
14. Lutetium – Lutecia, ancient name for Paris
15. Magnesium – Magnesia prefecture in Thessaly, Greece
16. Polonium – Poland
17. Ruthenium – Ruthenia, Latin for Russia
18. Scandium – Scandia, Latin for Scandinavia
19. Strontium – Strontian, a town in Scotland
20. Thulium – Thule, a mythical island in the far north
(Scandinavia?)
21. Ytterbium – Ytterby, Sweden
22. Yttrium – Ytterby, Sweden

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