Chemical Elements.com - Copper (Cu) Information about the history, usage, and mining of copper If you know of any other links for Copper, please let me know Bentor, Yinon. Chemical Element.com - Copper. < For more information about citing online sources, please visit the MLA's Website . This page was created by Yinon Bentor. Use of this web site is restricted by this site's license agreement . Copyright © 1996-2012 Yinon Bentor. All Rights Reserved. Nexus Research Group - How the elements were named Named after Strontian, a small village in the Western Highlands of Scotland. 2. Elements named after Heavenly Bodies Helium He From the Greek word "Helios" - the Sun. In 1868 during an eclipse of the Sun, Scientists observed a spectral line caused by an unknown element. They named the element Helium. Twenty seven years later in 1895, the element was discovered on Earth. Neptunium Np Named after the planet Neptune. Find the position of the three planets Neptune, Pluto and Uranus in the Solar system. Now find the position in the Periodic Table of the three elements named after these planets...

Plutonium Named after the planet Pluto Uranium U Named after the planet Uranus. The element was discovered in 1789, shortly after the discovery of the planet. 3. Elements named from Mythology Tantalum Ta Named after the Greek mythological king, Tantalus. It was discovered in 1802 and great difficulties were encountered in dissolving its oxide in acid to form salts. It proved to be a tantalising problem! Niobium Nb Named after Princess Niobe, the daughter of King Tantalus. According to legend, father and daughter were always found together and were very much alike. The two elements Niobium and Tantalum are usually found together in nature and their properties are very similar. Niobium was discovered in North America in 1801 and was originally named Columbium. It was renamed in 1844 after the connections with tantalum was realised. Find the positions of both elements in the periodic table Thorium Th Named after Thor, the Scandinavian God of War and Thunder. It was discovered and named in 1828. Coincidentally, thorium is used today as a nuclear fuel in nuclear weapons and reactors.

Titanium Ti Named after Titans, the Greek supermen. Titanium is an extremely strong metal which resists attack by acids. Vanadium Named after Vandis, the Scandinavian Goddess of Beauty. The salts of vanadium have beautiful colours. 4. Names that describe their Properties Argon Ar From the Greek word "argos" which means idle or lazy. Argon is one of the laziest, least reactive elements of all. Bromine From the Greek word "chloros" which means green. Chlorine is a green gas. Cobalt Co From the German word "kobold" which means goblin or evil spirit. Miners working in the cobalt mines sometimes died unexpectedly. For this reason the miners thought that the mines contained evil spirits. The real reason for these unexpected deaths was that cobalt ores usually contained highly poisonous arsenic. Dust from the ore probably got on their food or was breathed in, causing sudden deaths. Hydrogen H From the Greek words "hydro" and "genes" which mean water and forming. When hydrogen burns in the air, it forms water. Iodine I From the Greek word :iodos" which means violet. Iodine is a grey solid at room temperature.

It gives off a violet coloured vapour when warmed. Nickel Ni From the German word "kupfernickel" which means "Old Nick's Copper" or "False Copper". Salts of nickel resemble salts of copper. When nickel ore was first mined, the miners thought the ore was copper. They were mystified when the ore was smelted to give a silvery metal (nickel) and not red copper metal as had been expected. They called this metal "Devil's Copper" - Kupfernickel. Oxygen O From the Greek words "oxy" and "genes" meaning acid forming. Most non-metals burn in oxygen to form acids eg. sulphur. Phosphorous P From the Greek word "phosphorus" which means "light bearing". It was also the ancient name for the planet Venus, usually the brightest "star" in the night sky. Phosphorous glows in the dark and catches fire in the air to give a bright flame. Radium Ra From the Latin word "radius" which means "ray of light". Radium was discovered in 1898 by Pierre and Marie Curie. It gives out invisible and dangerous radiation ie. it is radioactive.

When concentrated, radium glows in the dark. 5.

Elements named after Famous Scientists Curium Materials - List of Chemical Elements - List of Chemical Elements From the Greek word aktinos (ray) 13 From the Latin word alumen (alum) 95 From America where it was discovered 51 From the Greek words anti + monos meaning not alone 18 From the Greek word argos meaning inactive 33 From the Greek word arsenikon meaning yellow orpiment (orpiment is arsenic trisulphide) 85 From the Greek word astatos meaning unstable 56 From the Greek word barus meaning heavy 97 Named after Berkeley, USA where it was discovered 4 From the Greek word beryllos meaning beryl 83 From the German word bisemutum 107 Named after Niels Bohr, the Danish physicist 5 From the Arabic word buraq or the Persian word burah 35 From the Greek word bromos meaning stench 48 From the Latin word cadmia or Greek word kadmeia both meaning calamine 55 From the Latin word caesius meaning sky blue 20 From the Latin word calx meaning lime 96 Named after the University of California, USA where it was

 discovered 6 From the Latin word carbo meaning charcoal 58 Cerium Ce Named after the Asteroid Ceres, which had been discovered in 1801, two years before the element 17 From the Greek word chloros meaning pale green 24 From the Greek word chrome meaning colour 27 From the German word kobald meaning goblin or evilspirit 29 From cuprum, the Latin name for the island of Cyprus 96 Named after Pierre & Marie Curie 110 Named after Darmstadt, Germany where it was discovered 105 Named after Dubnia, USSR where it was discovered 66 From the Greek word dysprositos meaning hard to obtain 99 Erbium Er Named after the village of Ytterby in Sweden, where the mineral from which it was extracted came from 63 Named after Enrico Fermi, the Italian physicist 9 From the Latin word fluere meaning to flow 87 Named after Johan Gadolin, the Finnish chemist and mineralogist 31 From the Latin word Gallia meaning France 32 From the Latin word Germania meaning Germany 79 From the German word gold, which was itself derived from an earlier word

 meaning yellow 72 From the Latin word Hafnia meaning Copenhagen 108 From the Latin word Hassium, for the German State of Hess 2 From the Greek word helios meaning sun 67 From the Greek word Holmia meaning Sweden 1 From the Greek words hydro genes meaning water and generator 49 Named after the indigo line in its atomic spectrum 53 From the Greek word iodes meaning violet 77 From the Greek word iris meaning rainbow 26 From isarn the old Saxon word for iron 36 From the Greek word kryptos meaning hidden 57 From the Greek word lanthanein meaning to lie hidden 103 Named after Ernest O.

Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron 82 From the Anglo-Saxon word lead 3 From the Greek word lithos meaning stone 71 From the Greek word Lutetia meaning Paris 12 From the Greek word Magnesia, a district of Thessaly 25 From the Latin word magnes meaning magnet 108 Named after Lise Meitner,the Austrian physicist 101 Named after Dimitri Mendeleev, the Russian chemist 80 Named after the planet Mercury 42 From the Greek word molybdos meaning lead 60 From the Greek words neos didymos meaning new twin 10 From the Greek word neon meaning new 93 Named after the planet Neptune 28 From the German word kupfernickel meaning devil's scopper 41 Named after Niobe, the daughter of Tantalus in Greek mythology 7 From the Greek words nitron genes meaning nitre and forming 102 Named after Alfred Nobel, the Swedish chemist 76 From the Greek word osme meaning smell 8 From the Greek words oxy genes meaning acid and forming 46 Palladium Pd Named after the asteroid pallas which was discovered at about the

 same time.

Derived from Pallas Athene, the Greek goddess of wisdom 15 The Parts of the Periodic Table Elements named after countries, states, or other geographical features: Californium: state (and University) of California Francium: France Gallium: Latin word for France, Gallia Germanium: Latin word for Germany, Germania Hassium: German state of Hesse, where the GSI is located Magnesium: named after Magnesia, a district in Thessaly in central Greece Polonium: named for Marie Curie's native country of Poland Rhenium: named after the Latin word for the Rhine River, Rhenus Ruthenium: named after the Latin word for Russia, Ruthenia Scandium: named after the Latin word for Scandinavia, Scandia Thulium: named after the ancient word for Scandinavia, Thule Elements named after cities: Berkelium: Berkeley, California, home of the University of California, where a number of synthetic elements have been produced Darmstadtium: Darmstadt, Germany, home of the Laboratory for Heavy Ion Research (GSI, Gesellschaft fï¿½r Schwerionenforschung) where a number of synthetic elements have been produced Dubnium

: Dubna, Russia, home of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR, Объединённый институт ядерных исследований, ОИЯИ), where a number of synthetic elements have been produced Erbium, Terbium, Ytterbium, Yttrium: all named after the Swedish village of Ytterby (near Vaxholm), where these elements were first isolated (as well as Holmium, Scandium, and Tantalum) Hafnium: Copenhagen (Hafnia), Denmark Fermium: Enrico Fermi, the inventor of the first nuclear reactor Lawrencium: Ernest O.

Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron Meitnerium: Lise Meitner, one of the first scientists to recognize that uranium could undergo nuclear fission Mendelevium: Dimitri Mendelev, the deviser of the Periodic Table of the Elements Nobelium: Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prize Roentgenium: Wilhelm Rï¿½ntgen, the discoverer of X-rays Rutherfordium: Ernest Rutherford, discoverer of the atomic nucleus, and a pioneer in the study of nuclear physics Seaborgium: Glenn T.

Seaborg, who discovered/synthesized a number of transuranium elements Most of the rest of the names of the elements are derived from various chemical or physical properties: Actinium: Greek: aktinos, "ray" (because it glows with a blue light in the dark) Antimony: Greek: anti + monos, "not alone" (because it was never found uncombined with another element) Argon: Greek: argos, "idle" (because of its unreactivity) Astatine: Greek: astatos, "unstable" (because it is) Barium: Greek: barys, "heavy" (in reference to the high density of some barium minerals) Bromine: Greek: bromos, "stench" (elemental bromine has a terrible smell) Cobalt: German: kobold, "goblin" (because of the toxic fumes of arsenic that were produced when silver miners heated the arsenic-containing ore smaltite, mistaking it for silver ore) Dysprosium: Greek: dysprositos, "hard to get at" (because the first isolation of the element required a tedious separation sequence) Fluorine: Latin: fluere,

 "to flow" Hydrogen" Greek: hydro + genes, "water forming" Krypton: Greek: kryptos, "hidden" (since it had been "hidden" in a sample of argon) Lanthanum: Greek: lanthanein, "to be hidden" (because the element was discovered "hidden" as an impurity in ores of cerium) Manganese: Latin: magnes, "magnet" (because it can be made to be ferromagnetic with the right treatment) Neodymium: Greek: neos + didymos, "new twin" Neon" Greek: neos, "new" Nickel: German: kupfernickel, "Old Nick's copper" (i.e., copper of the devil, or false copper, because it was frequently mistaken for copper) Nitrogen: Latin: nitron + genes, "nitre [potassium nitrate] forming" Osmium: Greek: osme, "odor" (because of its nasty smell, which is actually caused by osmium tetroxide) Oxygen: Latin: oxy + genes, "acid forming" Phosphorus: Greek: phos + phoros, "light bringing" (because it glows

 in the dark, and spontaneously burst into flame in air) Radium: Latin: radius, "ray" (because of its ability to glow in the dark with a faint blue light) Technetium: Greek: technetos, "artificial" Tungsten: Swedish: tung sten, "heavy stone" (because of the elements high density) Xenon: Greek: xenos, "stranger" (because at the time, it did not form compounds with other elements References John Emsley, The Elements, 3rd edition.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. John Emsley, Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Elements Named for Places | The Basement Geographer Elements Named for Places by kuschk As schoolchildren, we are all exposed to the periodic table of the elements in our science textbooks and on the walls of our chemistry classrooms. This organised display of the chemical elements – the pure chemical substances that are the building blocks of all molecules – ingrains the names, symbols, and atomic weights of the 118 elements that have been identified in our heads. 98 of these elements occur naturally on Earth (although some only in trace amounts); the other 20 have been artificially produced within laboratories. The names of elements derive from a number of different sources: ancient or longstanding names for those elements discovered in days of yore (e.g., gold, silver, antimony); descriptive names for elements that exhibit a certain characteristic (the most common source of element names, usually derived from a Greek adjective), or eponymic names for elements named after people (e.g., curium , einsteinium , bohrium ).

This is a geography website, however, and so it should come as no surprise that this article is most concerned with those elements that have geographically-derived names. While the practice of naming elements after places is becoming increasingly common due to the need to find names for synthetically-created laboratory elements, the practice as a regular occurrence dates back to the mid-19th century (and technically, it dates as far back as the name for copper, as you’ll find out below). Of the 118 identified elements, 32 derive their name from a toponym. As you’ll see below, because much of the influence in the field of nuclear physics has been held by a select few laboratories, there is a surprising amount of repetition in terms of name sources. Americium (95 Am): Named for (the United States of) America, the land where the element was discovered during the course of the Manhattan Project , the US-led World War II programme that would develop the first atomic bomb.

Two members of the team that helped discover americium, Glenn Seaborg and Albert Ghiorso , were part of teams based out of the University of California, Berkeley ’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that were ultimately responsible for discovering or co-discovering 13 different elements between 1940 and 1974. Among these elements, berkelium (97 Bk)and californium (98 Cf)were discovered by this team in 1949 and 1950, respectively, and named accordingly. The Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory. Cerium (58 Ce) and palladium (46 Pd): In the early 19th century, chemists were discovering all sorts of elements; for example, just between 1801 and 1809 twelve different elements were isolated for the first time. Also during this decade, astronomers were discovering the first known asteroids. Two of these extraterrestrial bodies would lend their names to newly-discovered elements. The first asteroid to be discovered, Ceres (today classified as a dwarf planet) was discovered on the last day of 1801.

When the great Swedish chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius co-discovered the element with the atomic number of 58 in 1803, he would name it after the recently discovered Ceres ( itself named for the Roman god of agriculture). At the same time in England, William Hyde Wollaston had discovered the element with the atomic number of 46 and also intended to name this element for Ceres. Wollaston, however, did not immediately publish his results (in fact, he instead made his first announcement of his discovery by selling samples of his newly-discovered metal in a London mineralogical shop ) and by the time he went public with his discovery, cerium has already been announced by Berzelius. Wollaston thus went with the name of the second asteroid to be discovered, Pallas , first observed in March 1802. Copper (29 Cu): The English copperis derived from the Latin cuprum, a simplification of an older Latin name for the metal, aes Cyprium, which in turn comes from the Greek name for Cyprus . The island was a major source of the metal in Roman times.

While other, larger countries have long surpassed Cyprus in terms of overall production, mining continues on the island. The association of Cyprus with copper is perhaps best evidenced by the flag of Cyprus in which the entire island is coloured in copper. Darmstadtium (110 Ds) and hassium (108 Hs): Darmstadt , one of the major cities of the German state of Hesse , is home to the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research , a laboratory responsible for the discovery of six elements between 1982 and 1996. While four of these elements have been named for prominent scientists, hassium (from the Latin name of the state, Hassia) and darmstadtium were named for the home of the laboratory. Dubnium (105 Db): The city of Dubna in Russia’s Moscow Oblast was originally developed in the immediate post-World War II era to serve as the hub of nuclear physics research in the Soviet Union. The research laboratory eventually developed into the international Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR). Since 1956, the JINR has been responsible for the discovery or co-discovery of eleven separate elements.

Dubna emerged as a compromise naming candidate when the two co-discoverers (the JINR prepared the element in 1968 and proposed the name nielsbohrium after the Danish physicist Niels Bohr ; the Berkeley Laboratory prepared the element in 1970 and proposed the name hahnium after the german chemist Otto Hahn ). It was not until 1997 that dubnium was finally approved once and for all. Erbium (68 Er), terbium (65 Tb), ytterbium (70 Yb), and yttrium (39 Y): Amazingly, all four of these elements are named after Ytterby, a small suburban island village east of Stockholm, Sweden. It all has to do with a 1787 discovery made in the dumps of a small rock quarry in the village made by a student of Berzelius/naval lieutenant named Carl Axel Arrhenius . There, Arrhenius would come across a black ore that was far too heavy and metallic to be coal. Naming the ore ytterbite, Arrhenius sent the sample off for analysis to various chemists.

This single rock sample would go on to produce ten separate new elements over the next century-and-a-half. The Finnish-Swedish chemist Johan Gadolin would be the first chemist to discover an entirely new element within the sample, finding that 38% of the black ore was composed of an entirely new ‘earth type’ . Naming the newly-discovered ore ytterbia in 1794 (shortened three years later to yttria) after Arrhenius’ ytterbite, the element first isolated from yttria by convention took the name yttrium. In 1843, Carl Gustav Mosander , another Swedish chemist, would discover two more unique parts within the yttria sample, which he termed erbia and terbia (giving rise to erbium and terbium). Throughout the 1870s and 1880s, different pieces of the sample were further isolated, producing even more elements. In 1878, the last variation on the name of Ytterby, ytterbium, was discovered. Further elements discovered from that original ore sample would thus have to take on names derived from other sources.

Many of these newer elements stuck with Scandinavian-themed names: holmium (67 Ho) for Stockholm; scandium (21 Sc), taken from the Latin name for Scandinavia, Scandia; and thulium (69 Tm), named for the mythical land of Thule commonly associated with Scandinavia. Even places that don’t have a direct connection to Ytterby were commemorated in elements isolated from that original rock sample. A part of the sample was sent off to Paris, and it was in Paris that ytterbium, holmium, and gadolinium (named for Gadolin) were first isolated. The final element to be isolated from the sample would be named for Paris, lutetium (71 Lu, after Lutetia, the name of Paris during Roman rule). Besides gadolinium, the only non-topoynymically named element to come from Ytterby was dyprosium , taken from the Greek term for ‘hard to get at’. The commemorative plaque at the quarry in Ytterby. Source: Uwezi, . Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence.

Europium (63 Eu): Named by its French discover Eugene Demarcay for Europe. Francium (87 Fr) and gallium (31 Ga): In addition to lutetium, France is also represented with francium and gallium (from the Latin Gallia). Gallium actually came first , discovered in 1875 by Paul Émile (François) Lecoq de Boisbaudran . Francium would not be named until 1939, when the French physicist Marguerite Perey , a student of Marie Curie, discovered it. Germanium (32 Ge): Following gallium in the periodic table is germanium, discovered in 1886 by Clemens Winkler. Initially, his plan was to name the element neptunium after the planet Neptune (just as the existence of Neptune had been mathematically predicted, so had the existence of the 32nd element), but neptunium had already been temporarily bestowed on what would eventually be termed niobium . Winkler thus renamed his discovery after his home country of Germany.

Hafnium (72 Hf): Hafnia is the Latin name for Copenhagen, where this element was first isolated in 1923. Livermorium (116 Lv*): This is the proposed name for the 116th element, temporarily named ununhexium (‘one-one-six’-ium) until a permanent name is agreed upon. Discovered in 2000 at Dubna, this discovery, as have all of the elemental discoveries from 113 onward, was a collaborative effort between scientists from the JINR and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at Livermore, California. Magnesium (12 Mg) and manganese (25 Mn): As with magnetite, the iron oxide ore with which most people associate the term ‘magnetic’, these two elements are named for Magnesia , the region of Thessaly , Greece with which they were associated with in antiquity. ‘Manganese’ is a borrowing from Italian and itself a corruption of ‘Magnesia’. Magnesia (red) within Thessaly (orange) and Greece (yellow).

Uranium (92 U), neptunium (93 Np), and plutonium (94 Pu): These three elements named for the three outermost planets of the solar system (Pluto, of course, was eventually downgraded to the status of dwarf planet) occur in succession in the periodic table. Uranium was first isolated in 1789 and named for the most recently discovered planet of the day, Uranus (discovered in 1781 in the same wave of astrological discoveries that would find Ceres and Pallas). When the 93rd and 94thelements were finally discovered during 1940-41 at the Berkeley lab after irradiating uranium with neutrons (93) and bombarding uranium with deuterons (94), it only made sense to name them systematically after the element from which they were derived. Polonium (84 Po): One of the two elements discovered by Pierre and Marie Curie at the turn of the 20th century, polonium takes its name from Poland, the homeland of Marie Curie (Pierre Curie’s home of France was already commemorated by this point with gallium).

Rhenium (75 Re): This element was actually discovered in 1908 by the Japanese scientist Masataka Ogawa , who named it nipponium after Japan. Ogawa, however, believed that he had found the 43rd element rather than the 75th. It would not be until 1925 that a German team isolated the element and properly determined its atomic number. Rhenus is the Latin term for the Rhine River, and the Rhineland was the home of one of the co-discoverers, Ida Eva Tacke . Ruthenium (44 Ru): When large tracts of platinum were discovered in the Ural Mountains in 1824, samples were sent to Berzelius and his Russian collaborator Gottfried Osann. While Berzelius could not identify any new metals within the sample, Osann was able to detect three new metals , one of which he named ruthenium after Ruthenia , the Latin term for the land of the Kievan Rus (today, Ruthenia is more commonly association with Ukraine rather all of the land of the Kievan Rus which included most of European Russia and Belarus).

Unable to isolate the elements within, the formal discovery of ruthenium would wait until 1844 when another Russian scientist of German descent, Karl Claus , was able to do so. He kept the term ruthenium both in deference to Osann and in recognition of the metal’s Russian origin. Strontium (38 Sr): Mining for lead in and around the small village of Strontian in the Scottish Highlands began during the 1720s. By 1790, it was realised that much of the raw material from which the lead was being harvested, called strontianite after the village, was also housing an entirely distinct type of mineral . Over the next two decades, a number of scientists would independently confirm the existence would become known as strontium; its first confirmed isolation was by the Cornish chemist Humphry Davy in 1808. For more information on the history behind the names of elements, the only place you need to visit, really, is Peter van der Krogt’s Elementymology & Elements Multidict ; an incredible assemblage of information that can occupy you for hours. Further Reading International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry (2011).

Start of the Name Approval Process for the Elements of Atomic Number 114 and 116. 1 December 2011. Available at . Accessed 20 April 2012. Kean, S. (2010). Ytterby: The Tiny Swedish Island That Gave the Periodic Table Four Different Elements. Slate, 16 July 2010. Available at . Accessed 20 April 2012. van der Krogt, P. (2010). Elementymology & Elements Multidict. Available at . Accessed 20 April 2012. Winter, M. (2012). WebElements. Available at . Accessed 20 April 2012.

It's Elemental - The Element Copper It's Elemental Melting Point: 1357.77 K (1084.62°C or 1984.32°F) Boiling Point: 2835 K (2562°C or 4644°F) Density: 8.933 grams per cubic centimeter Phase at Room Temperature: Solid Element Classification: Metal Period Number: 4 Group Number: 11 Group Name: none What's in a name? From the Latin word cuprum, which means "from the island of Cyprus." Say what? Copper is pronounced as KOP-er. History and Uses: Archaeological evidence suggests that people have been using copper for at least 11,000 years. Relatively easy to mine and refine, people discovered methods for extracting copper from its ores at least 7,000 years ago. The Roman Empire obtained most of its copper from the island of Cyprus, which is where copper's name originated.

Today, copper is primarily obtained from the ores cuprite (CuO2), tenorite (CuO), malachite (CuO3·Cu(OH)2), chalcocite (Cu2S), covellite (CuS) and bornite (Cu6FeS4). Large deposits of copper ore are located in the United States, Chile, Zambia, Zaire, Peru and Canada. Used in large amounts by the electrical industry in the form of wire, copper is second only to silver in electrical conductance. Since it resists corrosion from the air, moisture and seawater, copper has been widely used in coins. Although once made nearly entirely from copper, American pennies are now made from zinc that has been coated with copper. Copper is also used to make water pipes and jewelry, as well as other items. Pure copper is usually too soft for most uses. People first learned about 5,000 years ago that copper can be strengthened if it is mixed with other metals. The two most familiar alloys of copper are bronze and brass. Bronze, the first alloy created by people, is a mix of copper that contains as much as 25% tin .

Early people used bronze to make tools, weaponry, containers and ornamental items. Brass, a mix of copper that contains between 5% and 45% zinc, was first used about 2,500 years ago. The Romans were the first to make extensive use of brass, using it to make such things as coins, kettles and ornamental objects. Today, brass is also used in some musical instruments, screws and other hardware that must resist corrosion. Hydrated copper sulfate (CuSO4·H2O), also known as blue vitriol, is the best known copper compound. It is used as an agricultural poison, as an algicide in water purification and as a blue pigment for inks. Cuperic chloride (CuCl2), another copper compound, is used to fix dyes to fabrics. Cuprous chloride (CuCl) is a poisonous white powder that is chiefly used to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2). Copper cyanide (CuCN) is commonly used in electroplating.

Estimated Crustal Abundance: 6.0×101 milligrams per kilogram Estimated Oceanic Abundance: 2.5×10-4 milligrams per liter Number of Stable Isotopes: 2 ( View all isotope data ) Ionization Energy: 7.726 eV Etymologies of element names | PlanetStar Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Etymologies of element names Share Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected. This is the list of 173 elements discussing their etymologies, including official, proposed, predicted, and made-up names. A subatomic particle neutron , since this element only contains neutron(s) in its nucleus . 1 Hydrogen H From the Latin hydor genes, derived from the Ancient Greek ὕδωρ γείνομαι (hydor geinomai), meaning "to beget water," because water is the most common and important hydrogen compound .

2 From the Greek ἥλιος ( Helios ), meaning " Sun " and also " the god of Sun " in mythology . 3 Lithium Li From the Greek λιθος (lithos), meaning "stone," because this element was discovered from a mineral while other common alkali metals (sodium and potassium) were discovered from plant tissue. 4 Beryllos, denoting " beryl ," which contains beryllium. 5 لاعقشا (buraq), derived from the Persian "بورون" (burah), referring to " borax ." 6 Carbon C From the French charbone, which in turn came from the Latin carbo, meaning "charcoal." (In German and Dutch , kohlenstoff and koolstof, respectively, both literally meaning " coal -stuff"). 7 N From the Latin nitrum genes, derived from the Greek νιτρον γείνομαι (nitron geinomai), meaning "native-soda ( niter ) forming." It is sometimes known as Azotum, which means "Ashdod", the English name of that element, and its symbol is sometimes known as "Az".

8 Oxygen O From the Greek οξύς γείνομαι (oxys geinomai), meaning "acid to bring forth," as he believed it to be an essential component of acids. 9 Fluorspar , one of its compounds. Fluor is the Latin for "flowing." 10 From the Greek νέος (neos), meaning "new." 11 Sodium Na From the English soda , used in names for sodium compounds such as caustic soda , soda ash , and baking soda . The symbol Na is from the Modern Latin name Natrium, derived from the Greek νιτρον (nítron), meaning "natural soda," a kind of salt. 12 From the Ancient Greek Μαγνήσια ( Magnesia ) (district in Thessaly ), where this element was discovered. 13 From the Latin alum , meaning "bitter salt." 14 From the Latin silex or silicis, meaning " flint ," a kind of stone.

15 Phosphorus P From the Greek φωσ φόρος (phós phoros), meaning "light bearer," because "white phosphorus" emits a faint glow upon exposure to oxygen. Phosphorus was an ancient name for the " planet Venus " as Phosphorus ( Morning Star ). 16 Sulfur S Almost certainly from the Arabic صفرا (sufra), "yellow," the bright color of the naturally occurring form. The word passed into Sanskrit गन्धक (sulvere or sulvari), the Latin "sulpur," the English "sulphur" or "sulfur," and also was commonly referred as "brimstone" in English translations of the Bible . 17 Chlorine Cl From the Greek χλώρος (chlorós), meaning "yellowish green" or "greenish yellow," because of the color of the gas. 18 Means "inactive" in Greek (literally "lazy"). 19 Potassium K From the English potash , meaning "pot-ash" ( potassium compound prepared from an alkali extracted in a pot from the ash of burnt wood or tree leaves).

The symbol K is from this elment's Latin name, Kalium, derived from the Arabic القلي (al qalīy), meaning "calcined ashes." 20 Calcium Ca From the Latin calx, meaning "lime." Calcium was known as early as the first century when the Romans prepared lime as calcium oxide . 21 From the Latin Scandia, meaning " Scandinavia ." 22 Titanium Ti From the Greek τιτάν (titan), meaning " Earth ." Also from Titans , the first sons of Gaia in Greek mythology. 23 From Vanadis , a goddess in Scandinavian mythology , because of its beautifully multicolored chemical compounds. 24 From the Greek chroma, meaning " color ," because there are many colorful chromium compounds . 25 From the Latin magnes, meaning "magnet," for Magnetite or its magnetic property. 26 Iron Fe "Iron" (īsern) may derive from the Etruscan aisar, meaning "the god (s)," because the earliest iron to be worked (by the Sumerians and Egyptians , around 4000 BC) was obtained from meteorites , and meteorites fall from the sky.

Starting with two letters in this symbol: Fe, the Latin name of this element is Ferrum, meaning "Iron", which is the English name of that element. 27 Cobalt Co From the German kobalt, meaning "evil spirit," the metal being so called by miners, because this element was poisonous and troublesome ( polluted and degraded the other mined elements like nickel). Other sources cite the origin as stemming from silver miners' belief that cobalt had been placed by " Kobolds " who had stolen the silver. Some also think the name may be derive from the Greek kobalos, meaning "mine," and which may have common roots with kobold, goblin, and cobalt. 28 Nickel Ni From the Swedish kupfernickel, meaning "copper-colored ore"; this referred to the ore niccolite from which this element was obtained. 29 Copper Cu Possibly derived from the Greek χαλκός (chalkos), meaning "copper (the metal)." May also be derived from the Latin (during the Roman empire) aes cyprium, ("aes" being the generic Latin term for copper alloys such as bronze , etc).

Cyprium means " Cyprus ," where so much of this element was mined; the name was simplified to cuprum and then eventually anglicized as "copper." 30 Borrowed from a Proto-Indo-European language , and has cognates in several Germanic and Celtic languages . The symbol Sn is from the Latin name Stannum. 51 Antimony Sb Possibly from the Greek αντι μόνος (anti monos), approximately meaning "opposed to solitude," as believed never to exist in pure form, or anti-monachos, (the French antimoine, still has adherents) for "monk-killer," because many early alchemists were monks and antimony is poisonous. May also be derived from the Pharaonic ( Ancient Egypt ), Antos Ammon (expression), which could be translated as "bloom of the god Ammon." The symbol Sb is from Latin name, Stibium. The word derived from the Greek στιμμί (stimmi), probably a loan word from Arabic or Egyptian. Littré suggests the first form derives from stimmida, an accusative of stimmi.

The Arabic word for the substance, as "mark" or "the cosmetic," can appear as ithmid, athmoud, othmod or uthmod. 52 Te From the Latin Tellus, meaning " Earth ." Also from Terra Mater , the Roman goddess personifying the Mother Earth . 53 Thule , an ancient Roman name for a mythical country in the far north, perhaps Scandinavia. 70 Ytterbium Yb Ytterbia , the oxide compound of ytterbium . ((Neo-)Ytterbium was named after (Neon, from the Greek νέος (neos), meaning "new", and) Ytterby, the Swedish village near Vaxholm ) where the mineral gadolinite was found.) An alternative, but rejected name is Aldebaranium (Ad), after the red giant star, Aldebaran , located about 68 light years away in the zodiac constellation of Taurus.

71 Lu From the Latin Lutetia, the city of " Paris ." An alternative name is Cassiopium (Cp), after the constellation in the northern sky, Cassiopeia , named after a vain queen ho boasted about her unrivalled beauty. 72 From the Latin Hafnia, meaning " Copenhagen ," the capital of Denmark . 73 Tantalum Ta From the Greek ταντάλυς ( Tantalus ), who was punished after death by being condemned to stand knee-deep in water, if he bent to drink water, it drained below the level he could reach (in Greek mythology ). This was considered similar to tantalum's general non-reactivity because of its inertness (it sits among reagents and is unaffected by them). 74 Tungsten W From the Swedish and Danish languages tung sten, meaning "heavy stone." The symbol W is from scientific name Wolfram. The element and its ore Wolframite , was named in honor of " Peter Woulfe ," who discovered its existence. The names Wolfram or Volfram are still used in Swedish and several languages. 75 Honoring Ernest Rutherford , who pioneered the Bohr model of the atom and discovered the atomic nucleus .

An alternative, but rejected name is Kurchatovium (Ku), honoring Igor Vasilevich Kurchatov , who shared fundamental understanding of the uranium chain reaction and the nuclear reactor. 105 Db Dubna , a town in Russia where this element was synthesized (in the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research). Two alternative, but rejected names are Hahnium (Ha) and Joliotium (Jl), honoring Otto Hahn , who shared the discovery of nuclear fission with Fritz Strassmann and Lise Meitner. He also discovered numerous radioactive elements, and Frédéric Joliot-Curie . 106 Seaborgium Sg Honoring Glenn T. Seaborg , who synthesized the chemistry of the transuranium elements , shared discoveries and isolated 10 elements, developed and proposed the actinide series . 107 χαλκος κυπριος (chalkos kuprios) = metal from Cyprus (Greek) History & Etymology The discovery of Copper goes back to prehistoric times. Estimates of the earliest use of Copper vary, but 5000 BC is not unreasonable.

Gold was probably the first metal to attract man's attention because of its sparkling yellow color, and Iron in the form of meteorites may have been used before Copper in some localities. By about 3500 BC Copper was being obtained in the Middle East by charcoal reduction of its ores, and by 3000 BC the advantages of adding Tin in order to produce the harder bronze was appreciated in India, Mesopotamia and Greece. This established the "Bronze Age", and copper has continued to be one of manпїЅs most important metals. The earliest recorded use of copperware in India has been around 3000 BC the findings at Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, bear this out. The earliest documented observation of smelting of metals in India is by Greek historians in the 4th century BC. Copper has been mentioned in the Periplus as an article of export from India. In those days Copper ore was extracted in a big way and it was smelted locally in South India and Rajputana, according to the Periplus Maris Erythreae, a maritime geography of the east-west trade, written in about the first century AD.

In his biography of the charismatic teacher and miracle worker Apollonius of Tyana (first century AD), the Greek biographer Lucius Flavius Philostratus of Lemnos (c. 170-c. 245) gives a detail account of Apollonius's journey to India. In the town of Taxila, the capital of the kingdom Hinduš (or Indus-country) he mentions a shrine, in which were hung pictures on Copper tablets representing the feats of Alexander and Porus. In his own words, "The various figures were portrayed in a mosaic of Orichalcum, Silver, Gold, and oxidised Copper, but the weapons in Iron. The metals were so ingeniously worked into one another that the pictures which they formed were comparable to the productions of the most famous Greek artists." In astrology alchemy the seven heavenly bodies known to the ancients were associated with seven metals also known in antiquity: Sun (Sol) Lead (Plumbum) In ancient India Copper was also known as Tamara, Copper plate was called Tamara-Patra. Tamrakar meant a Copper smith and Tamara-pana meant a Copper coin.

The long history of Copper is reflected in the many different words for this metal. See the list of names to the left and in the overview of Copper in over 100 languages (click here) . We can identify at least seven different roots. The main European branches of the Indo-European language (except Slavic) use derivations from the Latin cuprum. 1. Cuprum (many languages) The original Latin word for copper was æs, but that word was extended to its alloy with tin, bronze, and as this was far more extensively used than pure Copper, the word's primary sense shifted to the alloy and a new word evolved for Copper, from the Latin form of the name of the island of Cyprus (in Greek Κυπρος [Kypros]), where copper was mined: Cyprium (æs) (Greek: χαλκος κυπριος [chalkos kuprios]). Derivations are used in almost all Italic languages (except Italian!), Celtic and Germanic languages, also Finnish. 2. Rame (Italian) Sumerian URUDU ?

("copper, copper colored?) Latvian RUDU- "copper colored" Latvian RUDVARIS (var. RUDU VARA ) And similar lists for Iron , Tin , and Lead . In examining all of these ancient terms for these metals, Kaulins sees that all names have two basic roots as their origin: (1) "bar, var, par". Indo-European for "to smelt, boil" (Latvian var). (2) "dzel, zil", meaning "yellow, gold, blue, dark blue, shiny" (Latvian zil). According to Kaulins, the Latin Cuprum is not derived from Cyprus, but the other way round: the name Cyprus comes from the word for Copper. Chemistianity 1873 COPPER, the Siamatic bond metal 'Tween integral parts of British Empire, And Britain with all important nations, Is a yellow tinged red colour'd metal, Named Cuprum, moderately hard, ductile, Very tenacious, and melts at white heat. J. Carrington Sellars, Chemistianity, 1873 , p.

164 Further reading Mary Elvira Weeks, Discovery of the Elements, comp. rev. by Henry M. Leicester (Easton, Pa.: Journal of Chemical Education, 1968), pp. 18-29. Grant Duff, Ancient India's Contribution to Production Technology and Mechanical Engineering. 1997. (on-line) S. Srinivasan and S. Ranganathan, Metallurgical Heritage of India (on-line) . James B. Calvert, "Copper, Silver and Gold" 2002 (on-line) . What is the element copper named after? What is the element copper named after? 1 Answer 0 Interesting. I didn't know this either: "In Greek the metal was known by the name chalkos (χαλκό ς). Copper was a very important resource for the Romans, Greeks and other ancient peoples. In Roman times, it became known as aes Cyprium (aes being the generic Latin term for copper alloys such as bronze and other metals, and Cyprium because so much of it was mined in Cyprus). From this, the phrase was simplified to cuprum and then eventually Anglicized into the English copper.

Copper was associated with the goddess Aphrodite/Venus in mythology and alchemy, owing to its lustrous beauty, its ancient use in producing mirrors, and its association with Cyprus, which was sacred to the goddess. In alchemy the symbol for copper was also the symbol for the planet Venus." Source: answerbag.com

Question: What chemical element (Cu) is named after Cyprus?
Answer: Copper