Some have criticised this trend as being a bit nationalistic and self-indulgent.

What are the latin names of all the elements. These elements have symbols that refer to their old element names. The list below gives the element name symbol old name name source for these oddly symboled elements. Most of the Elements LATIN Names are the Same as their ENGLISH Name.

Radius ray because of its ability to glow in the dark with a faint blue light Technetium. Fluorine Chlorine Bromine Iodine Astatine Not Including Tennessine because it has THE SAME NAME in Latin End With um instead of Ending with ine. List of All the Metal Latin Names.

Sometimes the elements are also named after the scientists or the geographical location where they were discovered. For example the element with atomic number 110 was named as un un nilium with a symbol Uun now its named Ds. This is not the complete table of elements only those with Greek or Latin influences.

Ramsay and Travers Nh Nihonium. Name of the Element. For kicks I have included the Latin Roman terms also.

And all the Halogens. The symbols derived from these Latin names are still useful to know about these metals. A number of the chemical elements have symbols that do not seem to correspond to their name.

122 rows This is a list of the 118 chemical elements which have been identified as of 2021. Theres a list of 213 of them here. In fact from element 95 americium onwards all the way to 118 oganesson theres not a single element that isnt named after a person or a city country or region.