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Names of the
Elements

Name:
Period:
Hint: If you need help go to: http://periodic.lanl.gov/default.htm What elements were named after the following astronomical bodies?
Sun
Mercury
Earth
Moon
Asteroid Pallas
Asteroid Ceres
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
What elements were named regarding their taste or odor?
Sweet (Latin)
Odor (Greek)
Stench (Greek)
What elements were named after the following places?
Berkeley, California
State of California
The Americas
France (2 elements)
Poland
Ytterby, Sweden (4 elements)

Cyprus
Russia (Latin)
Europe
Stockholm, Sweden
Germany
Scandinavia
Rhine river
Strontian, Scotland

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b)
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b)
c)
d)

Can you name the elements derived from the following colors? yellow "absenikon" (Greek) white "buraq" (Arabic) blue "caesium" (Latin) light green "chloros" (Greek) colored "chroma" (Greek) indigo "indigo" (German) violet "iodes" (Greek) rainbow "iris" (Latin) silver "platina" (Spanish) green twin "prasios didymos" (Greek) rose "rhodos" (Greek) dark red "rubidus" (Greek)
What noble gas elements were named after? (all are from Greek words except one) inactive unstable sun hidden new named after the element radium
(which is Latin for ‘rays’) stranger What elements are named after mythological characters or beasts? goblin (German) devil (German)
Prometheus (Greek bringer-of-fire)
Tantalus (Greek)
Niobe (daughter of Tantalus)
Thor (Norse god of war)
Titans (giant Greek deities)
Vanadis (Norse god of love and beauty)

Elements derived from other element names: liquid silver (Latin)
"precedes actinium" (Greek) lead (Greek) radium (which is Latin for ‘rays’)
Other Weird Element Names: heavy stone (Swedish) artificial (Greek) headache remedy (Latin) one-hundred and eleven (a temporary name; Latin) flint (Latin) acid-forming (French, from
Greek and Latin) new twin (Greek) magnet (Latin) rock (Greek) concealed (Greek) water-forming (Greek) shining dawn

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