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Word Unit: Chemical Element: actinium (Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, aktis, aktinos ray; radioactive metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: aluminum or aluminium (Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek and Latin, alumen, a substance having an astringent taste; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: americium (Modern Latin: chemical element; a form of America; radioactive metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: antimony (Greek: chemical element; antimonos, opposed to solitude; symbol Sb is from Latin stibium [powdered antimony]; some say antimony means, “a metal seldom found alone”; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: argon (Greek: argus, neutral, inactive, idle, inert; gas).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: arsenic (Latin: arsenicum, yellow; gold, golden; nonmetal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: astatine (Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, astatos, unstable; radioactive nonmetal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: barium (Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, baros, heavy; because its compounds are dense; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: berkelium (Modern Latin: chemical element; first made at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at the University of California in Berkeley; radioactive metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: beryllium (Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, beryllus, and Greek, beryllos, gem; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: bismuth (German: Wismut [wise, “meadow”] plus [mut, “claim to a mine”]; changed to bismat; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: bohrium (Modern Latin: named for Niels Henrik Bohr (1885-1962), Danish physicist; radioactive metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: boron (Arabic: boraq, and Persian, burah [borax]; BORax + carbON; nonmetal).
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