Periodic Table - Chemical elements by meaning of names

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Meaning of elements' names	Element
Water-producing (Greek)	Hydrogen
Sun (Greek)	Helium
New (Greek)	Neon
Lazy (Greek)	Argon
Hidden one (Greek)	Krypton
Stranger (Greek)	Xenon
Radiation (Latin)	Radon
Stone (Greek)	Lithium
Headache (Arabic) / Salt from dry lake beds (Ancient Egyptian)	Sodium / Natrium
Plant ashes (English) / Plant ashes (Arabic)	Potassium / Kalium
Deep red (Latin)	Rubidium
Sky blue (Latin)	Caesium
France (French)	Francium
Pale (Greek)	Beryllium
Magnesia (region in Greece)	Magnesium
Lime from limestone (Latin)	Calcium
Strontian (village in Scotland)	Strontium
Heavy (Greek)	Barium
Ray (Latin)	Radium
To flow (Latin)	Fluorine
Green-Yellow (Greek)	Chlorine
Stench (Greek)	Bromine
Violet (Greek)	Iodine
Unstable (Greek)	Astatine
Coal (Latin)	Carbon
To choke (Greek)	Nitrogen
Acid-producing (Greek)	Oxygen
The Morning Star/Bringer of Light (Greek)	Phosphorus
Sulphurium (Latin) aka brimstone	Sulfur
Moon (Greek)	Selenium
White (Arabic)	Boron
Flint (Latin)	Silicon
Germania (Latin name for Germany in Antiquity)	Germanium
Yellow pigment (Greek)	Arsenic
Not alone (Greek) [Stibium in Latin]	Antimony
Earth (Latin)	Tellurium
Poland (Latin)	Polonium
Bitter salt (Latin)	Aluminium
Gallia (Latin name for France in Antiquity, i.e. Gaul)	Gallium
Indigo (Latin)	Indium
Green twig (Greek)	Thallium
Tin-om (Proto-Germanic) [Stannum in Latin]	Tin
Lauda (Proto-Germanic) [Plumbum in Latin]	Lead
White mass (German)	Bismuth
Scandinavia	Scandium
Ytterby (village outside Stockholm; element 39)	Yttrium
Titans (Greek mythology)	Titanium
Gold-colored (Persian)	Zirconium
Copenhagen (Latin)	Hafnium
Vanadis (another name for Norse goddess Freyja)	Vanadium
Niobe (Greek mythology)	Niobium
Tantalus (Greek mythology)	Tantalum
Color (Greek)	Chromium
Lead (Greek)	Molybdenum
Heavy stone (Swedish) / Wolf's froth (German)	Tungsten / Wolfram
Magnesia (region in Greece)	Manganese
Artificial (Greek)	Technetium
The Rhine (Latin)	Rhenium
Isarnan (Proto-Germanic) [Ferrum in Latin]	Iron

Meaning of elements' names	Element
Russia (Latin)	Ruthenium
Smell (Greek)	Osmium
Goblin (German)	Cobalt
Rose (Greek)	Rhodium
Iris (Greek goddess of the rainbow)	Iridium
Mountain sprite, similar to goblin (German)	Nickel
Pallas Athena (Greek goddess)	Palladium
Little silver (Spanish)	Platinum
From Cyprus (Latin)	Copper
Shiny white, silubra (Proto-Germanic) [Argentum in Latin]	Silver
To shine, gultha (Proto-Germanic) [Aurum in Latin]	Gold
Jagged or teeth-like (German)	Zinc
Cadmus (Greek mythology)	Cadmium
Mercurius (Roman god) [Hydrargyrum (water-silver) in Latin]	Mercury
To lie hidden (Greek)	Lanthanum
Ceres (Roman goddess of agriculture)	Cerium
Green twin (Greek)	Praseodymium
New twin (Greek)	Neodymium
Prometheus (Greek mythology)	Promethium
Mineral samarskite named after Russian colonel Samarsky	Samarium
Europe (also a woman from Greek mythology)	Europium
Johan Gadolin	Gadolinium
Ytterby (village outside Stockholm; element 65)	Terbium
Hard to obtain (Greek)	Dysprosium
Stockholm (Latin)	Holmium
Ytterby (village outside Stockholm; element 68)	Erbium
Thule (mythological name for Scandinavia in Greek and Latin)	Thulium
Ytterby (village outside Stockholm; element 70)	Ytterbium
Paris (Latin)	Lutetium
Ray (Greek)	Actinium
Thor (Norse god)	Thorium
Before ray (Greek)	Protactinium
The planet Uranus (also Greek god of the sky, grandfather of Zeus)	Uranium
The planet Neptune (also Roman god of the sea)	Neptunium
The planet Pluto (also Roman god of the underworld)	Plutonium
America (i.e. the USA)	Americium
Marie Curie	Curium
Berkeley (city outside San Francisco and location of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)	Berkelium
California (US state)	Californium
Albert Einstein	Einsteinium
Enrico Fermi	Fermium
Dmitri Mendeleev	Mendelevium
Alfred Nobel	Nobelium
Ernest Lawrence	Lawrencium
Ernest Rutherford	Rutherfordium
Dubna (city outside Moscow and location of Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)	Dubnium
Glenn Seaborg	Seaborgium
Niels Bohr	Bohrium
Hessen (German state)	Hassium
Lise Meitner	Meitnerium
Darmstadt (German city and location of GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research)	Darmstadtium
Wilhelm Röntgen	Roentgenium
Nicolaus Copernicus	Copernicium
Japan's native name	Nihonium
Georgy Flyorov	Flerovium
Moscow Oblast (region outside Moscow)	Moscovium
Livermore (city outside San Francisco and location of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)	Livermorium
Tennessee (US state)	Tennessine
Yuri Oganessian	Oganesson

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Level 67

Dec 22, 2017

Fantastic quiz idea. BTW, Uranium is spelled incorrectly.

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