From the Greek word "hydro" (water), and "genes" (forming)
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From the Greek word "helios", the sun
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From the Greek word "lithos", stone
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From the Greek word "beryllos", beryl
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From the Arabic word "Buraq", Persian "Burah"
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From the Latin word "carbo", charcoal
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From the Latin word "nitrum", Greek "Nitron", native soda; and "genes", forming
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From the Greek word "oxys", acid, and "genes", forming
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From the Latin and French "fluere", flow or flux
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From the Greek word "neos", new
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From the English word, "soda"; Medieval Latin, "sodanum": a headache remedy
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From Magnesia, district in Thessaly
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From the Latin word "alumen", alum
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From the Latin word "silex", silicis, flint
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From the Greek "phosphoros", light bearing; ancient name for the planet Venus when appearing before sunrise
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Known to the ancients; referred to in Genesis as brimstone
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From the Greek word "chloro", greenish yellow
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From the Greek "argos", inactive
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From the English word, "potash" - pot ashes; Latin "kalium", Arab "qali", alkali
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From the Latin word "calx", lime
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From the Latin word "Scandia", Scandinavia
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From the Latin "titans", the first sons of the Earth, Greek mythology
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Named after Scandinavian goddess, Vanadis
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From the Greek word "chroma", color
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From the Latin word "magnes", magnet, from magnetic properties of pyrolusite
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From the Latin word "ferrum"
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From the German word "Kobald", goblin or evil spirit; also from the Greek "cobalos", mine
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From the German word "Nickel" (Satan), and from kupfernickel, Old Nick's copper
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From the Latin word "cuprum", from the island of Cyprus
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From the German word "Zink", of obscure origin
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From the Latin word "Gallia", France; also from Latin, "gallus", a translation of Lecoq, a cock
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From the Latin word "Germania", Germany
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From the Latin word "arsenicum", Greek "arsenikon"
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From the Greek word "Selene", moon
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From the Greek word "bromos", stench
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From the Greek word "kryptos", hidden
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From the Latin word "rubidus", deepest red
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Named after Strontian, a town in Scotland
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Named after Ytterby, a village in Sweden near Vauxholm
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From the Persian "zargun", gold like
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Named after Niobe, the daughter of Tantalu
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From the Greek word "molybdo", lead
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From the Greek word "technetos", artificial
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From the Latin word "Ruthenia", Russia
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From the Greek word "rhodon", rose
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Palladium was named after the asteroid Pallas; Pallas was the Greek goddess of wisdom
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The Latin word for silver is "argentum"
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From the Latin word "cadmia", Greek "kadmeia" - the ancient name for calamine, zinc carbonate
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From the brilliant indigo line in its spectrum
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The Latin word for tin is stannum
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