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Chemical Element: fermium (Modern Latin: chemical element; named in honor of Enrico Fermi, an Italian-American physicist; rare earth)
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Chemical Element: fluorine (Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, fluere, to flow; gas)
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Chemical Element: francium (Modern Latin: chemical element; named for France; radioactive metal)
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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)
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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)
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Chemical Element: gold (Anglo-Saxon: gold, Sanskrit juel, to shine; the symbol is from Latin aurum, shining down; metal)
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Chemical Element: hafnium (Modern Latin: chemical element; from Hafnia, the Latinized name of Copenhagen; metal)
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Chemical Element: hassium (Modern Latin: chemical element; from a Latin word Hassias meaning “Hess”, the German state of Hessen; radioactive metal)
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Chemical Element: helium (Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, helios, the sun, first observed in the sun’s atmosphere; gas)
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Chemical Element: holmium (Modern Latin: chemical element; Holmia, the Latinized form of Stockholm; rare earth)
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Chemical Element: indium (Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, indicum, indigo [a blue Indian dye]; metal)
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Chemical Element: iridium (Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, iris, a "rainbow", because of the changing color of its salts; metal)
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Chemical Element: iron (Anglo-Saxon: iron, the symbol is from Latin ferrum which also means iron; metal)
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Chemical Element: lanthanum (Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, lanthanein, "hidden", "to be concealed"; rare earth)
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Chemical Element: lawrencium (Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Ernest Lawrence, an American physicist and inventor of the cyclotron; radioactive metal)
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Chemical Element: lead, plumbum, Pb (Anglo-Saxon: lead; the symbol is from the Latin plumbum, "lead")
