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Namngivning av kemiska grundämnen

Nr Tecken Grundämne Namngiven av Beskrivning
1HVäteNamngiven av Antoine LavoisierThe name is derived from the Greek hyrdo- (ὑδρο) meaning "water" and -genes (γενής) meaning "former".
2HeHeliumNamngiven av 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.
3LiLitiumThe 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.
6CKolThe name probably is derived from the Latin carbo, meaning variously “coal”, “charcoal”, “ember”, and its word origin can be traced to ancient times.
7NKväveNamngiven av Jean-Antoine ChaptalThe name is derived from the Latin nitrum and the Greek nitron for "native soda" and genes for "forming".
8OSyreNamngiven av Antoine LavoisierThe name is derived from the Greek words oxy and genes, which together mean "acid forming."
9FFluorNamngiven av 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.
13AlAluminiumNamngiven av Humphry DavyThe name is derived from the ancient Latin name for alum, which was alumen, meaning bitter salt.
14SiKiselNamngiven av 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.
16SSvavelThe 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.
17ClKlorNamngiven av 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.
20CaKalciumThe name is derived from the Latin word 'calx' meaning lime, which was obtained from heating limestone.
21ScSkandiumThe name derives from the Latin word 'Scandia', meaning Scandinavia, because the element occurs in rare minerals found there.
22TiTitanNamngiven av Martin Heinrich KlaprothThe name comes from Greek word Titans, the mythological "first sons of the Earth".
23VVanadinNamngiven av 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.
26FeJärnThe 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.
28NiNickelThe 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."
29CuKopparThe 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.
30ZnZinkNamngiven av 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.
33AsArsenikThe 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.
40ZrZirkoniumThe name is derived from the Arabic word 'zargun', meaning gold coloured.
41NbNiobThe 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.
42MoMolybdenThe name comes from Ancient Greek word molybdos (Μόλυβδος) meaning lead-like, as its ores were confused with lead ores.
43TcTeknetiumThe name is derived from the Greek word 'tekhnetos' meaning artificial, because it was the first manmade element synthesized.
44RuRuteniumThe name is derived from 'Ruthenia', the Latin name for Russia, as the platinum ores were originally from the Ural Mountains in Russia.
45RhRodiumThe 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.
47AgSilver
48CdKadmiumNamngiven av Friedrich Stromeyer
49InIndium
50SnTenn
51SbAntimon
52TeTellurNamngiven av Martin Heinrich Klaproth
53IJodNamngiven av Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
54XeXenonNamngiven av William Ramsay
55CsCesium
56BaBarium
57LaLantanNamngiven av Carl Gustaf Mosander
58CeCeriumNamngiven av Jöns Jacob Berzelius
59PrPraseodym
60NdNeodym
61PmPrometiumNamngiven av Grace Mary Coryell
62SmSamariumNamngiven av Lecoq de Boisbaudran
63EuEuropium
64GdGadolinium
65TbTerbium
66DyDysprosiumNamngiven av Lecoq de BoisbaudranThe name is derived from the Greek word 'dysprositos', which means 'hard to get at'.
67HoHolmiumNamngiven av Per Teodor CleveThe name is derived from the Latin word for the city of Stockholm, Holmia.
68ErErbium
69TmTulium
70YbYtterbium
71LuLutetiumNamngiven av Georges Urbain
72HfHafnium
73TaTantal
74WVolframNamngiven av Torbern Bergman
75ReRhenium
76OsOsmiumNamngiven av Smithson Tennant
77IrIridium
78PtPlatina
79AuGuld
80HgKvicksilver
81TlTallium
82PbBly
83BiVismut
84PoPoloniumNamngiven av Pierre Curie, Marie Curie
85AtAstat
86RnRadon
87FrFrancium
88RaRadium
89AcAktiniumNamngiven av André-Louis Debierne
90ThTorium
91PaProtaktiniumNamngiven av Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner
92UUran
93NpNeptunium
94PuPlutonium
95AmAmericium
96CmCurium
97BkBerkelium
98CfCalifornium
99EsEinsteinium
100FmFermium
101MdMendelevium
102NoNobelium
103LrLawrencium
104RfRutherfordium
105DbDubnium
106SgSeaborgium
107BhBohrium
108HsHassium
109MtMeitnerium
110DsDarmstadtium
111RgRöntgenium
112CnCopernicium
113NhNihonium
114FlFlerovium
115McMoskovium
116LvLivermorium
117TsTenness
118OgOganesson