Biology
- Lanthanum (la)
Term: lanthanum (La)Literally meaning: ?pertaining to hidden?Origin: ???????/lanthano(= to be hidden, to escape notice) .The element called lanthanum because it is ?hidden? in rare minerals. Coined/History Lanthanum was isolated in the mineral...
- Palladium (pd)
Term: palladiumLiterally meaning: ?pertaining to Pallas?Origin: Anc Greek??????/Pallas=goddess Athena o( Greek mythology) >?????/pallo= brandish in reference to the goddess brandishing the spear. Another theory is that the name was derived by...
- Molybdenium (mo)
Term: molybdenium (Mo)Literally meaning: ?pertaining to lead?Origin: Anc Greek????????/molybdos(=lead)Coined/History In 1778, Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786) claimed that molybdena (MoS2) was an ore of a distinct new element,...
- Selenium (se)
Term: selenium (Se)Literally meaning: ?pertaining to moon?Origin: Anc Greek??????/selene(=moon) Coined/History Selenium was named by Swedish chemist Jons Jacob Berzelius in 1817 ((1779-1848) when he noticed that selenium is...
- Arsenic (as)
Term:Arsenic (As)Literally meaning: ?masculine, pertaining to male?Origin: Anc Greek'á??????ü? /arsenikos(=masculine) > < /á????/aren(=male)There is also the option of persian etymology from word zarnic=yellow,...
Biology
antimony (Sb)
Term: antimony (Sb)
Literally meaning: ?not alone, against aloneness?
Origin: Anc Greek
????-/anti- (=prefix meaning opposed to, against, instead)
?????/monos (=alone)
Coined/History
Plini the Elder referred to male had female forms of antimony possibly meaning sulfide and metallic antimony respectively. In ancient times antimony was used in cosmetics for making black paint for eye brows.
The symbol stibium derived from Greek word ???????? and the abbreviation was used for first time by Jons Jacob Berzelius. This substance was referred to antimony sulphide (Sb2S3) which was known as ???????s/timmi? or / ??????/stivi? as it is described by Greek botanist and physician Dioskorides (circa 40-90 AD) (Materis medica 5, 99) and Roman Pliny the Elder (23-79) (Naturalis historia 33, 34).
In 1604 Basilius Valentinus (1565-1624) wrote the monograph ?Triumph-Wagen des Antimonij? . The word ?antimony? is derived from medieval latin form ?antimonium?. The most popular etymology is based on the assessment that this metalloid is not found unalloyed (not alone).
Definition
Antimony is a toxic chemical element with atomic mass and an atomic number of 51. It is a lustrous grey metalloid (resembles to metal), which is used mainly for paint and batteries production.
- Lanthanum (la)
Term: lanthanum (La)Literally meaning: ?pertaining to hidden?Origin: ???????/lanthano(= to be hidden, to escape notice) .The element called lanthanum because it is ?hidden? in rare minerals. Coined/History Lanthanum was isolated in the mineral...
- Palladium (pd)
Term: palladiumLiterally meaning: ?pertaining to Pallas?Origin: Anc Greek??????/Pallas=goddess Athena o( Greek mythology) >?????/pallo= brandish in reference to the goddess brandishing the spear. Another theory is that the name was derived by...
- Molybdenium (mo)
Term: molybdenium (Mo)Literally meaning: ?pertaining to lead?Origin: Anc Greek????????/molybdos(=lead)Coined/History In 1778, Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786) claimed that molybdena (MoS2) was an ore of a distinct new element,...
- Selenium (se)
Term: selenium (Se)Literally meaning: ?pertaining to moon?Origin: Anc Greek??????/selene(=moon) Coined/History Selenium was named by Swedish chemist Jons Jacob Berzelius in 1817 ((1779-1848) when he noticed that selenium is...
- Arsenic (as)
Term:Arsenic (As)Literally meaning: ?masculine, pertaining to male?Origin: Anc Greek'á??????ü? /arsenikos(=masculine) > < /á????/aren(=male)There is also the option of persian etymology from word zarnic=yellow,...