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Word Unit: Chemical Element: protactinium (Modern Latin: some say it comes from Greek proto, "first"; plus actinium, "ray"; so, “first actinium”; radioactive metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: radium (Modern Latin: from Latin radius, meaning “ray”, because of its intense radioactivity; radioactive metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: radon (Modern Latin: from radium and argon, its chemical cousin; radioactive gas).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: rhenium (Modern Latin: from Latin Rhenus, in honor of the Rhine River in Germany; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: rhodium (Modern Latin: from Greek, rhodon, "rose"; in reference to the red color of its salts; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: roentgenium (Named for German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen).
Related "roentgen, x-ray" units: roentgeno-; Roentgen Biography. Word Unit: Chemical Element: rubidium (Modern Latin: from Latin rubidus, "red"; from the red lines in its spectrum; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: ruthenium (Modern Latin: named for Ruthenia [Latin for Russia] in the Urals, where one was first found; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: rutherfordium (Modern Latin: named for Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealand physicist and chemist; radioactive metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: samarium (Modern Latin: named for a Scandinavian mineral samarskite; rare earth).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: scandium (Modern Latin: named for Scandinavia; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: seaborgium (Modern Latin: named for Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1912-1999), an American nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize winner; radioactive metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: selenium (Modern Latin: from Greek, selene, the moon; nonmetal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: silicon (Modern Latin: from Latin, silex, silicis, "flint"; nonmetal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: silver (Modern Latin: from Anglo-Saxon, sealfor, siolfur; the symbol is from Latin argentum, "silver"; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: sodium (Modern Latin: English, soda, compound of sodium; the symbol comes from Latin natrium; "a salt"; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: strontium (Modern Latin: named for Strontian, "a village in Scotland"; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: sulfur (Modern Latin: from Sanskrit, solvere; or sulvere; and Latin, sulphur; nonmetal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: tantalum (Modern Latin: named for the mythical king Tantalus [who in the Greek myths was tortured by being placed in water up to his chin, which he was never able to drink, whence the word “tantalize”]; because of the element’s insolubility or “to illustrate the tantalizing work he had until he succeeded in isolating this element”; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: technetium (Modern Latin: from Greek, technetos, "artificial"; the first man-made artificial element; radioactive metal).
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