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Words for our modern age especially English words from Latin and Greek sources.

Word Unit: Chemical Element: gadolinium (Modern Latin: chemical element; named after gadolinite, a mineral named for Johan Gadolin (1760-1852), a Finnish chemist and mineralogist; rare earth).

Word Unit: Chemical Element: gallium (Modern Latin: chemical element; Gallia, the Latin name for the area that became France after the fall of the Roman Empire; metal).

Word Unit: Chemical Element: germanium (Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Germany; metal).

Word Unit: Chemical Element: gold (Anglo-Saxon: gold, Sanskrit juel, to shine; the symbol is from Latin aurum, shining down; metal).

Word Unit: Chemical Element: hafnium (Modern Latin: chemical element; from Hafnia, the Latinized name of Copenhagen; metal).

Word Unit: Chemical Element: hassium (Modern Latin: chemical element; from a Latin word Hassias meaning “Hess”, the German state of Hessen; radioactive metal).

Word Unit: Chemical Element: helium (Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, helios, the sun, first observed in the sun’s atmosphere; gas).

Word Unit: Chemical Element: holmium (Modern Latin: chemical element; Holmia, the Latinized form of Stockholm; rare earth).

Word Unit: Chemical Element: hydrogen (Greek: hydor, "water", plus gen, "born", "forming"; gas).

Word Unit: Chemical Element: indium (Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, indicum, indigo [a blue Indian dye]; metal).

Word Unit: Chemical Element: iodine (Greek: iodes, "violet"; from the color of its vapor; nonmetal).

Word Unit: Chemical Element: iridium (Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, iris, a "rainbow", because of the changing color of its salts; metal).

Word Unit: Chemical Element: iron (Anglo-Saxon: iron, the symbol is from Latin ferrum which also means iron; metal).

Word Unit: Chemical Element: krypton (Greek: kryptos, "hidden"; gas).

Word Unit: Chemical Element: lanthanum (Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, lanthanein, "hidden", "to be concealed"; rare earth).

Word Unit: Chemical Element: lawrencium (Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Ernest Lawrence, an American physicist and inventor of the cyclotron; radioactive metal).

Word Unit: Chemical Element: lead (Anglo-Saxon: lead; the symbol is from the Latin plumbum, "lead").

Word Unit: Chemical Element: lithium (Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, lithos, "stone, stony"; metal).

Word Unit: Chemical Element: lutetium (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).

Word Unit: Chemical Element: magnesium (Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, Magnesia, a district in Asia Minor; metal).

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