Periodic Table Element Etymologies

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Named After	Element
German for Goblin	Cobalt
Rose-colored	Rhodium
Indigo	Indium
A dwarf planet \| Roman goddess of agriculture	Cerium
Stannum	Tin
Greek goddess of the rainbow	Iridium
The sun	Helium
The legendary founder of the Grecian Thebes	Cadmium
Nater/Headache	Sodium
Originally meaning Shining, got its name from Radium	Radon
Ferrum/Holy Metal	Iron
Stibium/Monk-Killer/Never Alone	Antimony
Little Silver	Platinum
Inventor of the Periodic Table	Mendelevium
Home of the Oak Ridge Power Plant	Tennessine
Artificial/Craft	Technetium
A Soviet physicist (Named after he died)	Flerovium
Pale-green	Chlorine
Sulfre/Sulpur	Sulfur
France	Francium
The 8th planet \| Roman god of the sea	Neptunium
Before Actinium	Protactinium
To flow	Fluorine
Ray in Greek	Actinium
The founder of x-rays	Roentgenium
Bitter salt	Aluminum
The Rhine	Rhenium
Greek for violet	Iodine
Cyprus	Copper
New twin	Neodymium
The United States/The continent Columbus "discovered"	Americium
A Russian mine official	Samarium
Ruthenia	Ruthenium
The creator of the first chain reaction	Fermium
Otto Hahn's female partner	Meitnerium
Charcoal	Carbon
Argentum/Shining	Silver
Pipes/Plumbum	Lead
A town in Sweden, the third element to be found there	Erbium
The creator of E=mc^2	Einsteinium
Latin name for Paris	Lutetium
A city in California (The University of California's main location)	Berkelium
A town in Sweden, the fourth element to be found there	Ytterbium
A city in Germany	Darmstadtium
Early name for Scandinavia	Thulium
Greek for Color	Chromium
A "planet" \| Roman god of the Underworld	Plutonium
Japan	Nihonium
Stench/Bad Smell	Bromine
The person who created one of the earliest atomic models	Rutherfordium
Green shoot	Thallium
The 7th planet \| Greek personification of heaven	Uranium
Nitre	Nitrogen
Greek for new	Neon
Greek for water	Hydrogen
The most populous US state	Californium
Kalium \| Potash	Potassium
German state	Hassium
Latin for Earth	Tellurium

Named After	Element
Inventor of the cyclotron	Lawrencium
Norse goddess of beauty	Vanadium
Norse god of thunder	Thorium
Danish physicist who composed the modern atomic model	Bohrium
Greek word for lead	Molybdenum
White mass	Bismuth
Greek for odor	Osmium
Latin for magnet \| A region in Greece (1st element to be named after the region)	Manganese
The astronomer who composed the Heliocentric theory	Copernicium
The capital of Russia	Moscovium
German for point	Zinc
Greek for hidden	Krypton
The discoverers of Polonium and Radium	Curium
Greek for moon	Selenium
Latin for grayish-blue	Cesium
Latin for ray	Radium
A laboratory in Russia	Dubnium
German for devil (Copper Devil)	Nickel
Swedish for heavy stone/Wolfram	Tungsten
The discoverer of many elements of the Actinides	Seaborgium
A son of Zeus (Famous for a punishment)	Tantalum
Roman name for France \| Latin for rooster	Gallium
A continent that has a Union	Europium
Greek for "lie hidden"	Lanthanum
Latin for red	Rubidium
Germany	Germanium
The Greek personification of the Morning Star	Phosphorus
Scandinavia	Scandium
An asteroid	Palladium
Latin name for Copenhagen	Hafnium
Acid	Oxygen
A group of deities that preceded the Olympians	Titanium
A region of Greece (The second element to be named after that region)	Magnesium
A Swedish town, the first to be found there	Yttrium
Borax	Boron
Latin for Stockholm	Holmium
The daughter of Tantalus \| Formerly named after the explorer who "discovered" America	Niobium
A Russian physicist (Named when he was still alive)	Oganneson
Latin for Flint	Silicon
Greek for "Green Twin"	Praseodymium
Greek for "Stone"	Lithium
Beryl \| Formerly named after the Greek word for sweet (Don't try tasting this, though.)	Beryllium
A Finnish chemist	Gadolinium
The Greek giver of fire	Promethium
Latin for lime	Calcium
Latin for Liquid Silver \| The messenger of the Roman Gods	Mercury
A town in Scotland	Strontium
A lab in California	Livermorium
Yellow \| Shining Dawn	Gold
Greek for Yellow Orpiment \| Gold	Arsenic
Persian for "Gold-colored"	Zirconium
Greek for "Hard to get at"	Dysprosium
Poland	Polonium
Greek for lazy	Argon
Greek for strange	Xenon
The inventor of dynamite	Nobelium
A town in Sweden, the second to be found there	Terbium
Greek for heavy	Barium
Greek for unstable	Astatine

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