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(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, aktis, aktinos ray; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek and Latin, alumen, a substance having an astringent taste; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; a form of America; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, astatos, unstable; radioactive nonmetal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, baros, heavy; because its compounds are dense; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; first made at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at the University of California in Berkeley; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, beryllus, and Greek, beryllos, gem; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Niels Henrik Bohr (1885-1962), Danish physicist; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek and Latin, cadmia, earthy or earth; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, calx, calcis, lime; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; first made at the University of California and named for California and the University of California in Berkeley; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for the asteroid Ceres which was discovered in 1803 and named for the Roman goddess Ceres; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, caesius, bluish gray; sky blue; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, chroma, color; because many of its compounds are colored; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, cuprum, referring to the island of Cyprus; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Pierre and Marie Curie; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named after the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna, Russia; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, dysprositos, hard to get at; difficult to access; hard to obtain; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Albert Einstein; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Ytterby, a village in Sweden; where gadolite was found; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Europe; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named in honor of Enrico Fermi, an Italian-American physicist; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, fluere, to flow; gas)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for France; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named after gadolinite, a mineral named for Johan Gadolin (1760-1852), a Finnish chemist and mineralogist; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; Gallia, the Latin name for the area that became France after the fall of the Roman Empire; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Germany; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Hafnia, the Latinized name of Copenhagen; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from a Latin word Hassias meaning “Hess”, the German state of Hessen; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, helios, the sun, first observed in the sun’s atmosphere; gas)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; Holmia, the Latinized form of Stockholm; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, indicum, indigo [a blue Indian dye]; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, iris, a "rainbow", because of the changing color of its salts; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, lanthanein, "hidden", "to be concealed"; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Ernest Lawrence, an American physicist and inventor of the cyclotron; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, lithos, "stone, stony"; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Gaulish-Latin, Lutetia, a fortified town of a Gaulish tribe of the Parisii, the ancient name of Paris; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, Magnesia, a district in Asia Minor; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named in honor of Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeléyev, a Russian chemist who contributed so much to the development of the periodic table; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, molybdos, "lead"; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, neo, "new" plus didymon, "twin" [with the element praseodymium]; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: named for the planet Neptune, the first planet beyond Uranus; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named for the goddess, Niobe, daughter of Tantalus. This element is also known as columbium; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; named in honor of Alfred Nobel; the discovery was made at the Nobel Institute; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, osme, "smell", "malodorousness", "stink"; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, named in honor of the asteroid Pallas, which was discovered at about the same time; and for Pallas, the Greek goddess of wisdom; metal)
(Modern Latin: a diminutive of the Spanish plata, "silver", "platina"; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for the planet Pluto; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named by Murie Curie for her native Poland; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named for potash, a compound of potassium; the symbol is from Latin kalium; from Arabic, gilf, and a reference to the charred ashes of the saltwort; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for the Greek god Prometheus, who stole fire from heaven [the sun] for mankind; radioactive metal rare earth)
(Modern Latin: some say it comes from Greek proto, "first"; plus actinium, "ray"; so, “first actinium”; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: from Latin radius, meaning “ray”, because of its intense radioactivity; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: from radium and argon, its chemical cousin; radioactive gas)
(Modern Latin: from Latin Rhenus, in honor of the Rhine River in Germany; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, rhodon, "rose"; in reference to the red color of its salts; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Latin rubidus, "red"; from the red lines in its spectrum; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Ruthenia [Latin for Russia] in the Urals, where one was first found; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealand physicist and chemist; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named for a Scandinavian mineral samarskite; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: named for Scandinavia; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1912-1999), an American nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize winner; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, selene, the moon; nonmetal)
(Modern Latin: from Latin, silex, silicis, "flint"; nonmetal)
(Modern Latin: from Anglo-Saxon, sealfor, siolfur; the symbol is from Latin argentum, "silver"; metal)
(Modern Latin: English, soda, compound of sodium; the symbol comes from Latin natrium; "a salt"; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Strontian, "a village in Scotland"; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Sanskrit, solvere; or sulvere; and Latin, sulphur; nonmetal)
(Modern Latin: named for the mythical king Tantalus [who in the Greek myths was tortured by being placed in water up to his chin, which he was never able to drink, whence the word “tantalize”]; because of the element’s insolubility or “to illustrate the tantalizing work he had until he succeeded in isolating this element”; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, technetos, "artificial"; the first man-made artificial element; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: tellus, the "earth"; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Ytterby, a village in Sweden; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, thallos, "a young, or green, twig or shoot" [based on the color of its spectrum]; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for Thor, the Norse god of thunder; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, Thule, the Greek name for land north of Britain or for Scandinavia; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: from Anglo-Saxon, tin; symbol from Latin stannum; meaning “tin”; metal)
(Modern Latin: from the Titans of classical mythology; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Swedish, tung sten, "heavy stone"; the symbol is from German Wolfram;, named for the tungsten mineral wolframite; metal)
(Modern Latin: a temporary IUPAC [International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry] nomenclature; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: a temporary IUPAC [International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry] nomenclature; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: a temporary IUPAC [International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry] nomenclature; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named for the planet Uranus; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: named for the Scandinavian goddess Vanadis; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, xenon, "stranger"; gas)
(Modern Latin: named for Ytterby, a quarry in Sweden where the first rare earth had been discovered; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: named for Ytterby, near Vaxholm in Sweden; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: from German, zink; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Arabic, zargun, "gold color"; metal)
(Greek ελυτρον > Modern Latin: covering, wrapping; sheath, casing; by extension, vagina)
(Modern Latin: 1. iodine. 2. the color violet)
(Greek: from Modern Latin which came from Greek koma, komatos, "deep sleep")
(Greek heuriskein and Modern Latin heuristicus and from German heuristisch; "to invent, to discover")
(Greek > Modern Latin: throat, upper part of the windpipe; the vocal-chord area of the throat; the musculocartilaginous structure below the tongue root and hyoid bone and above the trachea)
(Greek > Modern Latin: lead [the metal])
(Greek > Modern Latin: abnormal reduction, decrease in, insufficient, deficiency. Originally, the meaning was poverty, need; sometimes it is erroneously or incorrectly rendered as -poenia)
(Greek: strabizein > Modern Latin: "to squint"; imperfect focus; eyes deviating inwardly, deviating outwardly, or one eye going to the right and the other eye going to the left)
(Greek > Modern Latin: thymus gland, glands; warty glanular growth resembling a bunch of thyme [aromatic bush leaves])