All elements etymology

Name the 118 things/persons/places that gave name to the elements of the periodic table

Many elements have their names for other languages. It's the English translations that needs to be guessed.

Elements named after persons (may be fictional) are marked with red.

Elements named after places (may not be on Earth) are marked with green.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements

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No.	Element	Named for
1	Hydrogen	Water-forming
2	Helium	Sun
3	Lithium	Stone
4	Beryllium	Beryl
5	Boron	Borax
6	Carbon	Coal
7	Nitrogen	Niter-forming
8	Oxygen	Acid-forming
9	Flourine	Flow
10	Neon	New
11	Sodium	Soda
12	Magnesium	Magnesia (district in Greece)
13	Aluminium	Bitter salt
14	Silicon	Flint
15	Phosphorus	Light-bearing
16	Sulfur	Burn
17	Chlorine	Greenish yellow
18	Argon	Idle
19	Potassium	Potash
20	Calcium	Lime
21	Scandium	Scandinavia
22	Titanium	Titans
23	Vanadium	Freya (Norse God)
24	Chromium	Color
25	Manganese	Magnesia (district in Greece)
26	Iron	Original name
27	Cobalt	Goblin
28	Nickel	Nickel (German miner mythology)
29	Copper	Cyprus
30	Zinc	Tooth
31	Gallium	Gallia
32	Germanium	Germany
33	Arsenic	Masculine
34	Selenium	Moon
35	Bromine	Stench
36	Krypton	Hidden
37	Rubidium	Red
38	Strontium	Strontian (Scottish village)
39	Yttrium	Ytterby (Swedish village)
40	Zirconium	Zircon
41	Niobium	Niobe (Greek mythology)
42	Molybdenum	Lead
43	Technetium	Artificial
44	Ruthenium	Russia
45	Rhodium	Rose
46	Palladium	Pallas
47	Silver	Original name
48	Cadmium	Cadmus (Greek mythology)
49	Indium	Indigo
50	Tin	Original name
51	Antimony	Ambiguous
52	Tellurium	Earth
53	Iodine	Violet
54	Xenon	Strange
55	Caesium	Blue
56	Barium	Heavy
57	Lanthanium	Lie hidden
58	Cerium	Ceres
59	Praseodymium	Green twin

No.	Element	Named for
60	Neodymium	New twin
61	Promethium	Prometheus (Greek mythology)
62	Samarium	Samarskite
63	Europium	Europe
64	Gadolinum	Gadolinite
65	Terbium	Ytterby (Swedish village)
66	Dysprosium	Hard to get
67	Holmium	Stockholm
68	Erbium	Ytterby (Swedish village)
69	Thulium	Thule
70	Ytterbium	Ytterby (Swedish village)
71	Lutetium	Paris
72	Hafnium	Copenhagen
73	Tantalum	Tantalus (Greek mythology)
74	Tungsten	Heavy stone
75	Rhenium	Rhine
76	Osmium	Smell
77	Iridium	Iris (Greek mythology)
78	Platininum	Silver
79	Gold	Original name
80	Mercury	Mercury (Roman mythology)
81	Thallium	Twig
82	Lead	Original name
83	Bismuth	White mass
84	Polonium	Poland
85	Astatine	Unstable
86	Radon	Radium emanation (Radon-222)
87	Francium	France
88	Radium	Ray
89	Actinium	Ray
90	Thorium	Thor (Norse mythology)
91	Protactinium	Before actinium
92	Uranium	Uranus
93	Neptunium	Neptune
94	Plutonium	Pluto
95	Americium	America
96	Curium	Curie
97	Berkelium	Berkeley
98	Californium	California
99	Einsteinium	Einstein
100	Fermium	Fermi
101	Mendelevium	Mendeleev
102	Nobelium	Nobel
103	Lawrencium	Lawrence
104	Rutherfordium	Rutherford
105	Dubnium	Dubna (Rusian town)
106	Seaborgium	Seaborg
107	Bohrium	Bohr
108	Hassium	Hesse
109	Meitnerium	Meitner
110	Darmstadtium	Darmstadt
111	Roentgenium	Röntgen
112	Copernicium	Copernicus
113	Nihonium	Japan
114	Flevorium	Flerov Laboratory
115	Moscovium	Moscow
116	Livermorium	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
117	Tennessine	Tennessee
118	Oganesson	Oganessian

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