Biology
- Uranium (u)
Term: uranium (U)Literally meaning: ?pertaining to planet Uranus ?Origin?'õ???ü?/uranos(=heaven, sky)???/ano (=above)+????/oros(=mountain)The name was given after the recently dicovered planet Uranus. The planet name was given by German astronomer...
- Actinium (ac)
Term: actinium (Ac)Literally meaning: ?pertaining to ray?Origin: 'á???? actis(genitive á??[é???/actinos)(=ray, beam) The element was named after its power of emitting energy in the form of rays suchas radioactive ?radium? which comes from latin...
- Iridium (ir)
Term: iridium (Ir)Literally meaning: ?pertaining to rainbow?Origin=é??? (gen ??????)/iris(=rainbow)>????/ero(=announce, say)Iridium element named because of variety of colors which it gives while dissolving in marine acid. Coined/History ...
- Thulium (tm)
Term: thulium (Tm)Literally meaning: ?pertaining to Thoule land?Origin According Greek explorer Pytheas of Massalia (4 t6h cen BC) Thoulewas the northernmost habitable region of the world. Pytheas about 330 BC was travelled to England and then...
- 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...
Biology
europium (Eu)
Term:europium (Eu)
Literally meaning: ?pertaining to Europe, wide-gazing ?
Origin
?????/evrys(=broad)
+ ??/ops(=face)
The element called ?europium? after the continent Europe. According Greek mythology the continent took its name from a Phoenician princess whom one day, while she was gathering flowers, was abducted by Zeus (father of gods) after assuming the form of a white bull. According Homer (8th cen BCE) Europa was a great queen of Crete (E?????) giving birth to Minos, who would become king of Crete. Eventually, the term Europa was used to describe part of northern Greece and later (by 500BC) other lands further north of Greece.
Coined/History
Europium was first found by French chemist Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838-1912) in 1800 but is credited to French chemist Eugene?Anatole Demarcay(1852-1904) who managed to identified it while studied spectroscopic lines of samarium. He obt6ained it in 1901 using repeated crystallization of samarium magnesium nitrate.
Definition
Europium is a rare-earth silvery-white and soft chemical element with atomic number 63 and atomic mass 151.964. It is used in television colors as europia oxide.
- Uranium (u)
Term: uranium (U)Literally meaning: ?pertaining to planet Uranus ?Origin?'õ???ü?/uranos(=heaven, sky)???/ano (=above)+????/oros(=mountain)The name was given after the recently dicovered planet Uranus. The planet name was given by German astronomer...
- Actinium (ac)
Term: actinium (Ac)Literally meaning: ?pertaining to ray?Origin: 'á???? actis(genitive á??[é???/actinos)(=ray, beam) The element was named after its power of emitting energy in the form of rays suchas radioactive ?radium? which comes from latin...
- Iridium (ir)
Term: iridium (Ir)Literally meaning: ?pertaining to rainbow?Origin=é??? (gen ??????)/iris(=rainbow)>????/ero(=announce, say)Iridium element named because of variety of colors which it gives while dissolving in marine acid. Coined/History ...
- Thulium (tm)
Term: thulium (Tm)Literally meaning: ?pertaining to Thoule land?Origin According Greek explorer Pytheas of Massalia (4 t6h cen BC) Thoulewas the northernmost habitable region of the world. Pytheas about 330 BC was travelled to England and then...
- 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...