Showing posts with label element. Show all posts
Showing posts with label element. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 25, 2011


Lead-Pb,82
plumbian is the abbreviation for Pb witch is the latin word for soft metals
it was thought to be one of the oldest metals in achamy.

Monday, October 24, 2011

Americium (Am 95 are it's symbol on periodic table and it's atomic number) ( a radioactive metal found in nuclear reactors) is named after the country it was found in.
Iron is chemically labelled Fe on the periodic table of elements, from the root word of ferrum (a latin word for iron)

It's atomic number is 26.
ES-Einsteinium
It was named after Aberta Einstein.
Curium is the 96th element of the periodic table, definition- a radioactive element not found in nature
but discovered in 1944 among the products of plutonium after bombardment by high-energy helium ions.
  • Lawrencium is named in honour of Ernest O. Lawrence, the creator of cyclotron.
  • it is called Lr because, the name lawrence, has the letters Lr in it.
  • Lawrencium is a radioactive rare-earth metal. it is man-made
Sodium is the 11th element in the periodic table, the abbreviation for sodium is Na because the Latin word for sodium is natrium.
Antimony's checical symbol is Sb becasue it is made out of a lustrous grey metalloid, it is found in nature mainly as the sulfide mineral stibnite (Sb2S3) the symbol is Sb because sulfide mineral is Sb2
silver is called Ag because, Ag is an abbreviation of Argentum - the Latin word for silver.
Latin cuprum: from the isle of Cyprus, which is famed for its copper mines. Copper has been known since prehistoric time. It has been mined for more than 5000 years. The metal and its alloys have been used for thousands of years. In the Roman era, copper was principally mined on Cyprus, hence the origin of the name of the metal as сyprium (metal of Cyprus), later shortened to сuprum.
`K` is the symbol for Potassium because, Neo-Latin Kalium. It's atomic number is 19.