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Nr Symbol Grundstof Opkaldt af Beskrivelse
1HBrintOpkaldt af Antoine LavoisierThe name is derived from the Greek hyrdo- (ὑδρο) meaning "water" and -genes (γενής) meaning "former".
2HeHeliumOpkaldt af Edward Frankland, Norman LockyerThe name is derived from the Greek word for sun, helios. Helios is also the name of the Greek god of the Sun.
3LiLithiumThe name is derived from the Greek word 'lithos' meaning, 'stone.'
4BeBerylliumThe name is derived from the beryllos, the Greek name for the mineral beryl, the element was originally known as glucinium - from Greek glykys, meaning 'sweet' - to reflect its characteristic taste.
5BBorThe name is derived from the Arabic word 'buraq', a term signifying the element.
6CCarbonThe name probably is derived from the Latin carbo, meaning variously “coal”, “charcoal”, “ember”, and its word origin can be traced to ancient times.
7NKvælstofOpkaldt af Jean-Antoine ChaptalThe name is derived from the Latin nitrum and the Greek nitron for "native soda" and genes for "forming".
8OIltOpkaldt af Antoine LavoisierThe name is derived from the Greek words oxy and genes, which together mean "acid forming."
9FFluorOpkaldt af Humphry Davy, André-Marie AmpèreThe name is derived from the mineral fluorite which comes from the Latin word fluere meaning "to flow".
10NeNeonThe name is derived from the Greek word, νέον, neuter singular form of νέος (neos), meaning 'new'.
11NaNatriumThe name is derived from the English word soda and Medieval Latin word sodanum for "headache remedy".
12MgMagnesiumThe name is derived from the Greek word Magnesia, a district of Eastern Thessaly in Greece where the mineral magnesia alba was first found.
13AlAluminiumOpkaldt af Humphry DavyThe name is derived from the ancient Latin name for alum, which was alumen, meaning bitter salt.
14SiSiliciumOpkaldt af Thomas Thomson (chemist)The name is derived from the Latin word silex or silicis, meaning flint or hard stone.
15PFosforThe name is derived from the Greek word phosphoros, meaning bringer of light because it has the property of glowing in the dark. Phosphorus was the ancient name for the planet Venus.
16SSvovlThe name is derived either from Arabic word ‘sufra’ meaning yellow (which is the color of the naturally occurring form of the element) or from the Sanskrit word sulvere or the Latin word sulfurium, which meaning sulfur or brimstone.
17ClKlorOpkaldt af Sir Humphry DavyThe name is derived from the Greek word chloros, meaning pale green or yellow-green.
18ArArgonThe name is derived from the Greek word argos (ἀργόν), meaning lazy or idle, as a reference to the fact that the element undergoes almost no chemical reactions.
19KKaliumThe name is derived from the English word potash (pot ashes) from which potassium was first isolated.
20CaCalciumThe name is derived from the Latin word 'calx' meaning lime, which was obtained from heating limestone.
21ScScandiumThe name derives from the Latin word 'Scandia', meaning Scandinavia, because the element occurs in rare minerals found there.
22TiTitanOpkaldt af Martin Heinrich KlaprothThe name comes from Greek word Titans, the mythological "first sons of the Earth".
23VVanadiumOpkaldt af Nils Gabriel SefströmThe name originated from 'Vanadis', the old Norse name for the Scandinavian goddess of of love and beauty (Freyja), because of the beautiful multicolored compounds formed by the metal.
24CrKromThe name is derived from the Greek word 'chroma', meaning color because it forms a variety of colorful compounds.
25MnManganThe name either derives from the Latin word 'magnes', meaning magnet, or from ‘magnesia nigra’ indicating the black magnesium oxide in Latin.
26FeJernThe name derives from the Anglo-Saxon word 'iren'. The element has been known from prehistoric times.
27CoKoboltThe name is derived from the German word 'kobald', meaning goblin or evil spirit. It was named by miners in 16th century Saxony who thought they had found deposits of silver but had actually found cobalt arsenide.
28NiNikkelThe name is derived from a mischievous sprite of German miner mythology, Nickel (similar to Old Nick), who personified the fact that copper-nickel ores resisted refinement into copper. It also from the German word for the mineral niccolite, kupfernickel, which means "Old Nick's copper."
29CuKobberThe name is derived from the Old English name 'coper' in turn derived from the Latin ‘Cyprium aes’, meaning ‘Cyprus metal’, the island where the Romans first obtained copper.
30ZnZinkOpkaldt af ParacelsusThe name is derived from the German word 'zinc', a word of unknown origin.
31GaGalliumThe name is derived from the Latin name Gallia, the old name of France, in honor of its discoverer's home country.
32GeGermaniumThe name is derived from the Latin for Germany, 'Germania', in honor of its discoverer's home country.
33AsArsenThe name is thought to come from the Greek word 'arsenikon' meaning yellow orpiment or from the Greek word 'arsenikos' meaning strong, brave or male. Word was adopted in Latin as arsenicum, which in French became arsenic, from which the English word arsenic is taken.
34SeSelenThe name is derived from the Greek word 'selene', who was the Greek goddess and the personification of the Moon because the element is chemically found with tellurium (Tellus was the Roman goddess of the Earth).
35BrBromThe name comes from the Ancient Greek 'bromos' (βρῶμος) meaning stench, referring to its sharp and pungent smell.
36KrKryptonThe name is derived from the Greek word 'kryptos', meaning concealed or 'the hidden one'.
37RbRubidiumThe name is derived from the Latin word 'rubidius', meaning deep red because of the two "deep red lines" in its spectra.
38SrStrontiumThe name is derived from Strontian, a small town in Scotland where the metal was first discovered in 1790.
39YYttriumThe name derived from the Swedish village of Ytterby near Vaxholm where the mineral gadolinite was found.
40ZrZirconiumThe name is derived from the Arabic word 'zargun', meaning gold coloured.
41NbNiobiumThe name is derived from the Greek goddess of tears, Niobe, who was the daughter of king Tantalus, due to the element's similarities to tantalum.
42MoMolybdænThe name comes from Ancient Greek word molybdos (Μόλυβδος) meaning lead-like, as its ores were confused with lead ores.
43TcTechnetiumThe name is derived from the Greek word 'tekhnetos' meaning artificial, because it was the first manmade element synthesized.
44RuRutheniumThe name is derived from 'Ruthenia', the Latin name for Russia, as the platinum ores were originally from the Ural Mountains in Russia.
45RhRhodiumThe name is derived from the Greek word 'rhodon', meaning rose coloured, named for the rose-red color of dilute solutions of its salts.
46PdPalladiumThe name comes from the second largest asteroid in the solar system Pallas. The asteroid itself was named after the Greek goddess of wisdom Pallas Athena.
47AgSølv
48CdCadmiumOpkaldt af Friedrich Stromeyer
49InIndium
50SnTin
51SbAntimon
52TeTellurOpkaldt af Martin Heinrich Klaproth
53IJodOpkaldt af Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
54XeXenonOpkaldt af William Ramsay
55CsCæsium
56BaBarium
57LaLanthanOpkaldt af Carl Gustaf Mosander
58CeCeriumOpkaldt af Jöns Jacob Berzelius
59PrPraseodym
60NdNeodym
61PmPromethiumOpkaldt af Grace Mary Coryell
62SmSamariumOpkaldt af Lecoq de Boisbaudran
63EuEuropium
64GdGadolinium
65TbTerbium
66DyDysprosiumOpkaldt af Lecoq de BoisbaudranThe name is derived from the Greek word 'dysprositos', which means 'hard to get at'.
67HoHolmiumOpkaldt af Per Teodor CleveThe name is derived from the Latin word for the city of Stockholm, Holmia.
68ErErbium
69TmThulium
70YbYtterbium
71LuLutetiumOpkaldt af Georges Urbain
72HfHafnium
73TaTantal
74WWolframOpkaldt af Torbern Bergman
75ReRhenium
76OsOsmiumOpkaldt af Smithson Tennant
77IrIridium
78PtPlatin
79AuGuld
80HgKviksølv
81TlThallium
82PbBly
83BiBismuth
84PoPoloniumOpkaldt af Pierre Curie, Marie Curie
85AtAstat
86RnRadon
87FrFrancium
88RaRadium
89AcActiniumOpkaldt af André-Louis Debierne
90ThThorium
91PaProtactiniumOpkaldt af Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner
92UUran
93NpNeptunium
94PuPlutonium
95AmAmericium
96CmCurium
97BkBerkelium
98CfCalifornium
99EsEinsteinium
100FmFermium
101MdMendelevium
102NoNobelium
103LrLawrencium
104RfRutherfordium
105DbDubnium
106SgSeaborgium
107BhBohrium
108HsHassium
109MtMeitnerium
110DsDarmstadtium
111RgRøntgenium
112CnCopernicium
113NhNihonium
114FlFlerovium
115McMoscovium
116LvLivermorium
117TsTennessin
118OgOganesson