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Word Unit: Chemical Element: mendelevium (Modern Latin: chemical element; named in honor of Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeléyev, a Russian chemist who contributed so much to the development of the periodic table; radioactive metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: mercury (Latin: named for the Roman god Mercurius; the symbol is from Latin hydrargyrum, "liquid silver"; liquid metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: molybdenum (Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, molybdos, "lead"; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: neodymium (Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, neo, "new" plus didymon, "twin" [with the element praseodymium]; rare earth).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: neon (Greek: neo, "new" or the "new one"; gas).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: neptunium (Modern Latin: named for the planet Neptune, the first planet beyond Uranus; radioactive metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: nickel (German: Nickel, name for "Satan"; kupfernickel, meaning "Devil’s copper" or "St Nicholas’s (Old Nick’s) copper"; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: niobium (Modern Latin: named for the goddess, Niobe, daughter of Tantalus. This element is also known as columbium; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: nitrogen (Latin: "forming niter", or “niter producer”; because niter, a mineral properly called potassium nitrate, and contains nitrogen, a compound of nitrogen; gas).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: nobelium (Modern Latin: chemical element; named in honor of Alfred Nobel; the discovery was made at the Nobel Institute; radioactive metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: osmium (Modern Latin: from Greek, osme, "smell", "malodorousness", "stink"; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: oxygen (Greek: oxys, "sharp", plus gen, "forming"; from the incorrect belief that oxygen forms acids; gas).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: palladium (Modern Latin: from Greek, named in honor of the asteroid Pallas, which was discovered at about the same time; and for Pallas, the Greek goddess of wisdom; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: phosphorus (Greek: phosphoros, "light bringer", "morning star"; glows brightly because of rapid oxidation; nonmetal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: platinum (Modern Latin: a diminutive of the Spanish plata, "silver", "platina"; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: plutonium (Modern Latin: named for the planet Pluto; radioactive metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: polonium (Modern Latin: named by Murie Curie for her native Poland; radioactive metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: potassium (Modern Latin: named for potash, a compound of potassium; the symbol is from Latin kalium; from Arabic, gilf, and a reference to the charred ashes of the saltwort; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: praseodymium (Greek: prasios, "green", plus didymos, "twin" [with the element neodymium] because of a green line in its spectrum; rare earth).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: promethium (Modern Latin: named for the Greek god Prometheus, who stole fire from heaven [the sun] for mankind; radioactive metal rare earth).
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