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