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From Latin fluor meaning "a flowing", from mineral name fluorspar (calcium fluoride). Fluorspar was used to make iron flowing in smelting. Neon (Ne) 10 νέος (neos) Greek "new" From Greek νέος (neos), meaning "new". Sodium (Na) 11 soda: English From the English "soda", used in names for sodium compounds such as caustic soda, soda ash ...
English, from same Proto-Indo-European root as 'yellow' · Symbol Au, from Latin aurum: 11 6 d-block 196.97: 19.3: 1 337.33: 3129: 0.129: 2.54: 0.004: primordial solid 80 Hg Mercury: Mercury, Roman god of commerce, communication, and luck, known for his speed and mobility · Symbol Hg, from Latin hydrargyrum, from Greek hydrárgyros 'water ...
Each digit is translated into a "numerical root" according to the table. The roots are concatenated , and the name is completed by the suffix -ium . Some of the roots are Latin and others are Greek , to avoid two digits starting with the same letter (for example, the Greek-derived pent is used instead of the Latin-derived quint to avoid ...
Like the periodic table, the list below organizes the elements by the number of protons in their atoms; it can also be organized by other properties, such as atomic weight, density, and electronegativity. For more detailed information about the origins of element names, see List of chemical element name etymologies.
Theodore Gray (2009), The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc. Sam Kean (2011), The Disappearing Spoon and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World From the Periodic Table of the Elements, Back Bay Books/Little Brown and Company
Periodic tables usually at least show the elements' symbols; many also provide supplementary information about the elements, either via colour-coding or as data in the cells. The above table shows the names and atomic numbers of the elements, and also their blocks, natural occurrences and standard atomic weights. For the short-lived elements ...
The IUPAC numerical multiplier is a system of prefixes used in chemistry to indicate the number of atoms or groups in a molecule.
In most cases, Latin names of elements as used by Berzelius have the same roots as the modern English name. For example, hydrogen has the symbol "H" from Neo-Latin hydrogenium, which has the same Greek roots as English hydrogen. However, in eleven cases Latin (as used by Berzelius) and English names of elements have different roots.