From the Greek word "hydro" (water), and "genes" (forming)

希臘文“形成水的元素”

From the Greek word "helios", the sun

希臘文 “太陽的元素”

From the Greek word "lithos", stone

希臘文“石頭”

From the Greek word "beryllos", beryl

希臘文“綠柱石”

From the Arabic word "Buraq", Persian "Burah"

阿拉伯文“波斯灼熱”

From the Latin word "carbo", charcoal

拉丁文”木炭“

From the Latin word "nitrum", Greek "Nitron", native soda; and "genes", forming

拉丁文“营养”

From the Greek word "oxys", acid, and "genes", forming

希臘文“酸素”

From the Latin and French "fluere", flow or flux

拉丁文“流動”

From the Greek word "neos", new

希臘文“新的”

From the English word, "soda"; Medieval Latin, "sodanum": a headache remedy

英文“小蘇打”

From Magnesia, district in Thessaly

塞薩莉地區

From the Latin word "alumen", alum

拉丁文“白礬”

From the Latin word "silex", silicis, flint

拉丁文“打火石”

From the Greek "phosphoros", light bearing; ancient name for the planet Venus when appearing before sunrise

希臘文“火星在日出前的顔色”

Known to the ancients; referred to in Genesis as brimstone

古人所知； 在創世紀中被稱為硫磺

From the Greek word "chloro", greenish yellow

希臘文“發綠的黃”

From the Greek "argos", inactive

希臘文“惰性”

From the English word, "potash" - pot ashes; Latin "kalium", Arab "qali", alkali

從英語單詞“ potash”開始-鍋灰； 拉丁語“鉀”，阿拉伯語“ qali”，鹼

From the Latin word "calx", lime

拉丁文“石灰”

From the Latin word "Scandia", Scandinavia

拉丁文“斯堪的納維亞”

From the Latin "titans", the first sons of the Earth, Greek mythology

拉丁文“泰坦”

Named after Scandinavian goddess, Vanadis

以斯堪的納維亞女神Vanadis的名字命名

From the Greek word "chroma", color

希臘文“顔色”

From the Latin word "magnes", magnet, from magnetic properties of pyrolusite

軟錳礦的磁性是因爲其命名和磁鐵有關

From the Latin word "ferrum"

拉丁文“鉄”

From the German word "Kobald", goblin or evil spirit; also from the Greek "cobalos", mine

德文的“妖魂”和希臘文的“礦石”

From the German word "Nickel" (Satan), and from kupfernickel, Old Nick's copper

德文“撒旦”從尼克爾銅礦開採的“老尼克的銅”

From the Latin word "cuprum", from the island of Cyprus

拉丁文“賽普勒斯島”

From the German word "Zink", of obscure origin

德文“渺茫的源頭”

From the Latin word "Gallia", France; also from Latin, "gallus", a translation of Lecoq, a cock

拉丁文和法文“公雞”

From the Latin word "Germania", Germany

拉丁文“德國”

From the Latin word "arsenicum", Greek "arsenikon"

拉丁文“雄黃”

From the Greek word "Selene", moon

希臘文“月亮”

From the Greek word "bromos", stench

希臘文“惡臭”

From the Greek word "kryptos", hidden

希臘文“隱藏”

From the Latin word "rubidus", deepest red

拉丁文“深紅”

Named after Strontian, a town in Scotland

因蘇格蘭小鎮Strontian得名

Named after Ytterby, a village in Sweden near Vauxholm

紀念瑞典小鎮伊特比

From the Persian "zargun", gold like

波斯語“像黃金”

Named after Niobe, the daughter of Tantalu

因希臘神話中土星神的女兒尼俄伯而得名

From the Greek word "molybdo", lead

希臘語“鉛”

From the Greek word "technetos", artificial

希臘文“人造的”

From the Latin word "Ruthenia", Russia

拉丁文“俄羅斯”

From the Greek word "rhodon", rose

希臘文“玫瑰”

Palladium was named after the asteroid Pallas; Pallas was the Greek goddess of wisdom

因小行星帕拉斯（希臘神話中的智慧之神）而得名

The Latin word for silver is "argentum"

拉丁文的“銀”

From the Latin word "cadmia", Greek "kadmeia" - the ancient name for calamine, zinc carbonate

古语中“碳化锌”

From the brilliant indigo line in its spectrum

從其光譜中美麗的靛藍色而得名

The Latin word for tin is stannum

拉丁文“錫”