Statistics for Periodic Table Element Etymologies

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Named After	Element	% Correct
France	Francium	85%
Ferrum/Holy Metal	Iron	85%
Germany	Germanium	81%
Sulfre/Sulpur	Sulfur	81%
The 8th planet \| Roman god of the sea	Neptunium	77%
Argentum/Shining	Silver	77%
Norse god of thunder	Thorium	77%
The 7th planet \| Greek personification of heaven	Uranium	77%
The most populous US state	Californium	73%
The creator of E=mc^2	Einsteinium	73%
The sun	Helium	73%
Indigo	Indium	73%
Pipes/Plumbum	Lead	73%
Nitre	Nitrogen	73%
A "planet" \| Roman god of the Underworld	Plutonium	73%
Poland	Polonium	73%
Beryl \| Formerly named after the Greek word for sweet (Don't try tasting this, though.)	Beryllium	69%
Charcoal	Carbon	69%
Greek for water	Hydrogen	69%
Ruthenia	Ruthenium	69%
Scandinavia	Scandium	69%
Swedish for heavy stone/Wolfram	Tungsten	69%
The United States/The continent Columbus "discovered"	Americium	65%
Borax	Boron	65%
Latin for Liquid Silver \| The messenger of the Roman Gods	Mercury	65%
The inventor of dynamite	Nobelium	65%
Kalium \| Potash	Potassium	65%
A city in California (The University of California's main location)	Berkelium	62%
The discoverers of Polonium and Radium	Curium	62%
Inventor of the Periodic Table	Mendelevium	62%
The Greek giver of fire	Promethium	62%
Greek for moon	Selenium	62%
A town in Sweden, the fourth element to be found there	Ytterbium	62%
Cyprus	Copper	58%
A town in Sweden, the third element to be found there	Erbium	58%
Greek goddess of the rainbow	Iridium	58%
The capital of Russia	Moscovium	58%
Greek for new	Neon	58%
Japan	Nihonium	58%
A dwarf planet \| Roman goddess of agriculture	Cerium	54%
A continent that has a Union	Europium	54%
Roman name for France \| Latin for rooster	Gallium	54%
Before Actinium	Protactinium	54%
Originally meaning Shining, got its name from Radium	Radon	54%
The Rhine	Rhenium	54%
Stannum	Tin	54%
A group of deities that preceded the Olympians	Titanium	54%
A Swedish town, the first to be found there	Yttrium	54%
Greek for Color	Chromium	50%
Latin name for Paris	Lutetium	50%
Latin for magnet \| A region in Greece (1st element to be named after the region)	Manganese	50%
Stibium/Monk-Killer/Never Alone	Antimony	46%
Danish physicist who composed the modern atomic model	Bohrium	46%
The astronomer who composed the Heliocentric theory	Copernicium	46%
The creator of the first chain reaction	Fermium	46%
Otto Hahn's female partner	Meitnerium	46%
New twin	Neodymium	46%
The daughter of Tantalus \| Formerly named after the explorer who "discovered" America	Niobium	46%
The founder of x-rays	Roentgenium	46%
Latin for red	Rubidium	46%
A town in Sweden, the second to be found there	Terbium	46%
Latin for Stockholm	Holmium	42%
Greek for violet	Iodine	42%
Acid	Oxygen	42%
Latin for ray	Radium	42%
The person who created one of the earliest atomic models	Rutherfordium	42%
Pale-green	Chlorine	38%
German for Goblin	Cobalt	38%
A city in Germany	Darmstadtium	38%
A laboratory in Russia	Dubnium	38%
To flow	Fluorine	38%
A Finnish chemist	Gadolinium	38%
Yellow \| Shining Dawn	Gold	38%
Latin name for Copenhagen	Hafnium	38%
German state	Hassium	38%
A region of Greece (The second element to be named after that region)	Magnesium	38%
Greek for "Green Twin"	Praseodymium	38%
A son of Zeus (Famous for a punishment)	Tantalum	38%
Artificial/Craft	Technetium	38%
Greek for strange	Xenon	38%
Greek for "Stone"	Lithium	35%
A lab in California	Livermorium	35%
An asteroid	Palladium	35%
Little Silver	Platinum	35%
Rose-colored	Rhodium	35%
The discoverer of many elements of the Actinides	Seaborgium	35%
Latin for Earth	Tellurium	35%
Norse goddess of beauty	Vanadium	35%
Greek for lazy	Argon	31%
The legendary founder of the Grecian Thebes	Cadmium	31%
Latin for lime	Calcium	31%
A Soviet physicist (Named after he died)	Flerovium	31%
Greek for hidden	Krypton	31%
Greek for odor	Osmium	31%
Nater/Headache	Sodium	31%
A town in Scotland	Strontium	31%
Home of the Oak Ridge Power Plant	Tennessine	31%
Greek for unstable	Astatine	27%
Inventor of the cyclotron	Lawrencium	27%
The Greek personification of the Morning Star	Phosphorus	27%
Green shoot	Thallium	27%
Early name for Scandinavia	Thulium	27%
Bitter salt	Aluminum	23%
Greek for heavy	Barium	23%
Stench/Bad Smell	Bromine	23%
Greek word for lead	Molybdenum	23%
German for devil (Copper Devil)	Nickel	23%
A Russian physicist (Named when he was still alive)	Oganneson	23%
German for point	Zinc	23%
Ray in Greek	Actinium	19%
Greek for Yellow Orpiment \| Gold	Arsenic	19%
White mass	Bismuth	19%
Latin for grayish-blue	Cesium	19%
Greek for "Hard to get at"	Dysprosium	19%
Greek for "lie hidden"	Lanthanum	19%
A Russian mine official	Samarium	19%
Persian for "Gold-colored"	Zirconium	19%
Latin for Flint	Silicon	15%