The Professor is back, and he's bringing a solid lesson in etymology.
As you'll find in this video, many elements are named for other elements.
Nickel, for example, comes from kupfernickel in German, meaning that the element nickel was 'demon's copper' or the metal that was placed beside copper by demons making the copper harder to mine.
Ok, actually I can only find two elements named after other elements: molybdenum and nickel.
But still...you should go learn what some of the element's name origins.
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