AT No | Name of element |
æ | Origin of name |
89 |
Actinium | Ac | From the Greek word aktinos (ray) |
13 |
Aluminium | Al | From the Latin word alumen (alum) |
95 |
Americium | Am | From America where it was discovered |
51 |
Antimony | Sb | From the Greek words anti + monos meaning not alone |
18 |
Argon | Ar | From the Greek word argos meaning inactive |
33 |
Arsenic | As | From the Greek word arsenikon meaning yellow orpiment (orpiment is arsenic trisulphide) |
85 |
Astatine | At | From the Greek word astatos meaning unstable |
56 |
Barium | Ba | From the Greek word barus meaning heavy |
97 |
Berkelium | Bk | Named after Berkeley, USA where it was discovered |
4 |
Beryllium | Be | From the Greek word beryllos meaning beryl |
83 |
Bismuth | Bi | From the German word bisemutum |
107 |
Bohrium | Bh | Named after Niels Bohr, the Danish physicist |
5 |
Boron | B | From the Arabic word buraq or the Persian word burah |
35 |
Bromine | Br | From the Greek word bromos meaning stench |
48 |
Cadmium | Cd | From the Latin word cadmia or Greek word kadmeia both meaning calamine |
55 |
Caesium | Cs | From the Latin word caesius meaning sky blue |
20 |
Calcium | Ca | From the Latin word calx meaning lime |
96 |
Californium | Cf | Named after the University of California, USA where it was discovered |
6 |
Carbon | C | From the Latin word carbo meaning charcoal |
58 |
Cerium | Ce | Named after the Asteroid Ceres, which had been discovered in 1801, two years before the element |
17 |
Chlorine | Cl | From the Greek word chloros meaning pale green |
24 |
Chromium | Cr | From the Greek word chrome meaning colour |
27 |
Cobalt | Co | From the German word kobald meaning goblin or evilspirit |
29 |
Copper | Cu | From cuprum, the Latin name for the island of Cyprus |
96 |
Curium | Cm | Named after Pierre & Marie Curie |
110 |
Darmstadium | Ds | Named after Darmstadt, Germany where it was discovered |
105 |
Dubnium | Db | Named after Dubnia, USSR where it was discovered |
66 |
Dysprosium | Dy | From the Greek word dysprositos meaning hard to obtain |
99 |
Einsteinium | Es | Named after Albert Einstein |
68 |
Erbium | Er | Named after the village of Ytterby in Sweden, where the mineral from which it was extracted came from |
63 |
Europium | Eu | Named after Europe |
100 |
Fermium | Fm | Named after Enrico Fermi, the Italian physicist |
9 |
Fluorine | F | From the Latin word fluere meaning to flow |
87 |
Francium | Fr | Named after France |
64 |
Gadolinium | Gd | Named after Johan Gadolin, the Finnish chemist and mineralogist |
31 |
Gallium | Ga | From the Latin word Gallia meaning France |
32 |
Germanium | Ge | From the Latin word Germania meaning Germany |
79 |
Gold | Au | From the German word gold, which was itself derived from an earlier word meaning yellow |
72 |
Hafnium | Hf | From the Latin word Hafnia meaning Copenhagen |
108 |
Hassium | Hs | From the Latin word Hassium, for the German State of Hess |
2 |
Helium | He | From the Greek word helios meaning sun |
67 |
Holmium | Ho | From the Greek word Holmia meaning Sweden |
1 |
Hydrogen | H | From the Greek words hydro genes meaning water and generator |
49 |
Indium | In | Named after the indigo line in its atomic spectrum |
53 |
Iodine | I | From the Greek word iodes meaning violet |
77 |
Iridium | Ir | From the Greek word iris meaning rainbow |
26 |
Iron | Fe | From isarn the old Saxon word for iron |
36 |
Krypton | Kr | From the Greek word kryptos meaning hidden |
57 |
Lanthan um | La | From the Greek word lanthanein meaning to lie hidden |
103 |
Lawrencium | Lr | Named after Ernest O. Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron |
82 |
Lead | Pb | From the Anglo-Saxon word lead |
3 |
Lithium | Li | From the Greek word lithos meaning stone |
71 |
Lutetium | Lu | From the Greek word Lutetia meaning Paris |
12 |
Magnesium | Mg | From the Greek word Magnesia, a district of Thessaly |
25 |
Mangan ese | Mn | From the Latin word magnes meaning magnet |
108 |
Meitnerium | Mt | Named after Lise Meitner,the Austrian physicist |
101 |
Mendel evium | Md | Named after Dimitri Mendeleev, the Russian chemist |
80 |
Mercury | Hg | Named after the planet Mercury |
42 |
Molybdenum | Mo | From the Greek word molybdos meaning lead |
60 |
Neodymium | Nd | From the Greek words neos didymos meaning new twin |
10 |
Neon | Ne | From the Greek word neon meaning new |
93 |
Neptunium | Np | Named after the planet Neptune |
28 |
Nickel | Ni | From the German word kupfernickel meaning devil's scopper |
41 |
Niobium | Nb | Named after Niobe, the daughter of Tantalus in Greek mythology |
7 |
Nitrogen | N | From the Greek words nitron genes meaning nitre and forming |
102 |
Nobelium | No | Named after Alfred Nobel, the Swedish chemist |
76 |
Osmium | Os | From the Greek word osme meaning smell |
8 |
Oxygen | O | From the Greek words oxy genes meaning acid and forming |
46 |
Palladium | Pd | Named after the asteroid pallas which was discovered at about the same time. Derived from Pallas Athene, the Greek goddess of wisdom |
15 |
Phospho rus | P | From the Greek word phospheros meaning bringer of light |
78 |
Platinum | Pt | From the Spanish word platina meaning silver |
94 |
Plutonium | Pu | Named after the planet Pluto |
84 |
Polonium | Po | Named after Poland, birthplace of Marie Curie |
19 |
Potassium | K | From the English word potash, the ashes remaining in the pot after plant leaves were burnt and from which potassium carbonate was obtained |
59 |
Praseodym ium | Pr | From the Greek words prasios didymos meaning greentwin |
61 |
Promethium | Pm | Named after Prometheus, who stole fire from heaven and gave it to humans, according to Greek mythology |
91 |
Protac tinium | Pa | From the Greek word protos meaning first |
86 |
Radon | Rn | Named after the element radium, from which it was derived |
88 |
Radium | Ra | From the Latin word radius meaning ray |
75 |
Rhenium | Re | From Rhenus, the Latin for river Rhine, where one of the discoverers was born |
45 |
Rhodium | Rh | From the Greek word rhodon meaning rose |
111 |
Roentgenium | Rg | Named after Wilhelm C. Roentgen, the German physicist |
37 |
Rubidium | Rb | From the Latin word rubidius meaning dark red |
44 |
Ruthenium | Ru | From Ruthenia, the Latin word for Russia |
104 |
Rutherford ium | Rf | Named after Ernest R. Rutherford, the New Zealand physicist and chemist |
62 |
Samarium | Sm | Named after samarskite the mineral from which it was isolated |
21 |
Scandium | Sc | From the Latin word Scandia meaning Scandinavia |
106 |
Seaborgium | Sg | Named after Glen T. Seaborg, the American nuclear chemist |
34 |
Seleni um | Se | From the Greek word selene meaning moon |
14 |
Silicon | Si | From the Latin word silicis meaning flint |
47 |
Silver | Ag | From siluvar, the Old Saxon word for silver |
11 |
Sodium | Na | From soda, the English word for sodium carbonate |
38 |
Strontium | Sr | Named after Strontian, Scotland where the mineral from which it was isolated was found |
16 |
Sulphur | S | From sulphur ium, the Latin word for sulphur |
73 |
Tantalum | Ta | Named after King Tantalus, the father of Niobe in Greek mythology |
43 |
Technetium | Tc | From the Greek word technikos meaning artificial |
52 |
Tellurium | Te | From the Latin word tellus meaning earth |
65 |
Terbium | Tb | Named after Ytterby a town in Sweden where its ore was found |
81 |
Thallium | Tl | From the Greek word thallos meaning green twig |
90 |
Thorium | Th | Named after Thor, the Scandinavian God of war |
69 |
Thulium | Tm | Named after Thule the ancient name for Scandinavia |
50 |
Tin | Sn | From the Anglo-Saxon word tin |
22 |
Titanium | Ti | Named after the Titans, the elder gods who ruled the earth before the Olympian gods, in Greek mythology |
74 |
Tungsten | W | From the Swedish words tung sten meaning heavy stone |
92 |
Uranium | U | Named after the planet Uranus |
23 |
Vanadium | V | Named after Vanadis, the goddess of beauty in Scandinavian mythology |
54 |
Xenon | Xe | From the Greek word xenon meaning stranger |
70 |
Ytterbium | Yb | Named after the village of Ytterby in Sweden where its ore was found |
39 |
Yttrium | Y | Named after the village of Ytterby in Sweden where its ore was found |
30 |
Zinc | Zn | From the German word zink |
40 |
Zirconium | Zr | From the Arabic word zargun meaning goldcolour |