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Word Unit: Chemical Element: tellurium (Modern Latin: tellus, the "earth"; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: terbium (Modern Latin: named for Ytterby, a village in Sweden; rare earth).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: thallium (Modern Latin: from Greek, thallos, "a young, or green, twig or shoot" [based on the color of its spectrum]; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: thorium (Modern Latin: named for Thor, the Norse god of thunder; radioactive metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: thulium (Modern Latin: from Greek, Thule, the Greek name for land north of Britain or for Scandinavia; rare earth).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: tin (Modern Latin: from Anglo-Saxon, tin; symbol from Latin stannum; meaning “tin”; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: titanium (Modern Latin: from the Titans of classical mythology; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: tungsten (Modern Latin: from Swedish, tung sten, "heavy stone"; the symbol is from German Wolfram;, named for the tungsten mineral wolframite; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: ununbium (Modern Latin: a temporary IUPAC [International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry] nomenclature; radioactive metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: ununnilium (Modern Latin: a temporary IUPAC [International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry] nomenclature; radioactive metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: unununium (Modern Latin: a temporary IUPAC [International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry] nomenclature; radioactive metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: uranium (Modern Latin: named for the planet Uranus; radioactive metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: vanadium (Modern Latin: named for the Scandinavian goddess Vanadis; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: xenon (Modern Latin: from Greek, xenon, "stranger"; gas).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: ytterbium (Modern Latin: named for Ytterby, a quarry in Sweden where the first rare earth had been discovered; rare earth).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: yttrium (Modern Latin: named for Ytterby, near Vaxholm in Sweden; rare earth).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: zinc (Modern Latin: from German, zink; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Element: zirconium (Modern Latin: from Arabic, zargun, "gold color"; metal).
Word Unit: Chemical Elements Chart History, Part 1 of 2 (History of the Chemical Elements Table).
Word Unit: Chemical Elements Chart History, Part 2 of 2 (History of the Chemical Elements Table).
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