July 29, 2024

The weird ways the elements got their names

I'll admit that I knew most of the name origins of the elements in this video. 

There were a couple of that I'd either forgotten or hadn't known. Tellurium, antimony, argon, and a few others on the list at 13:25 surprised me.

In the end, I don't know that's it's the most helpful thing to know the origin of an element's name. It's historically interesting and might tell you something about the element, but it's also possibly a misnomer, oxygen, for example doesn't necessarily for acids, but its name suggests that it does.

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