In Europe, to the early nineteenth century, along with the super to the discovery of chemical elements and the more scientific and cultural exchanges between countries is increasingly expanded, chemists began to realize that it is necessary to unify the naming of chemical elements.Swedish chemist, first put forward in the Betsy, with European countries to gm's Latin to unified named elements, changed the chaos on the element name.

Chemical element of Latin name, when naming the department has a certain meaning, or to commemorate the discoverer found for the location, country, or in honor of a scientist, or borrow the stars name and the name of god, or to show this element as a feature.In the Latin name was translated into Chinese, also have a variety of practices.It is used for the name of the ancient, one is to borrow the ancient word, and the most word is another innovation.In much of the new Chinese characters, and can be divided into roughly symphony untouched and knowing word category.Talk to classify the names of these chemical elements, is also quite interesting.

A, named after place names

This kind of element, about accounted for nearly a quarter of the total.Chinese name basically all these elements from the Latin name of the first or the second syllable, and USES a symphony anagram.Such as:

Rb - Latin is "dark", is the color of the spectral lines

Cesium - Latin is "sky blue", is the color of the spectral lines

Thin layer of zinc - Latin is "white"

Radium - Latin is "ray"

Argon - Latin is "not active"

Iodine - Latin is "purple"

4. Knowing word

Have the Chinese name of the individual elements are borrowed from the ancient Chinese characters, such as element 87 鍅, Latin: "France", transliteration into 鍅.And "鍅" in ancient times the original refers to the bronze sheng JiuJiang or food container, its old meaning is used.

Second, are being named after people

This more than the Chinese name of the class element also take transliteration symphony word-formation methods.Such as:

Samarium - Latin is "Chinese fir Mars base", the Russian mineralogist.

Set - Latin is "Einstein".

Fermium - Latin is "Fermi", American physicist.

Mendelevium - Latin is "mendeleev".

Nobelium - Latin is "Nobel".

Lawrencium - Latin is "Lawrence", when the cyclotron inventor.

There is also a memory of the curies curium, is borrowed from Chinese characters.From the point of view of transliteration, borrow "saw" the word is ideal, but "saw" is a commonly used Chinese characters, not appropriate.Now use the word "curium", for "curium bowl", Chinese central plains "curium pan", etc.Although it is still in use, but the utilization rate is not high, generally not confuse.

Third, named after the name of god

Symphony word such as:

Vanadium - Latin is "all na di silk" Greek mythology goddess.

Promethium - Latin is "Prometheus", namely who stole the fire of the who in Greek mythology.

Thorium - Latin is, someone in the legend of the Nordic thor.

Tal, tantalum - Latin is "denier", the hero of Greek mythology.

Niobium - Latin is "mourinho male", namely the denier tower's daughter.

Speaking, it is interesting properties similar to that of tantalum and niobium, two elements in nature is often symbiotic together, is also from tantalum and niobium elements in the ore is separated.From this perspective, with the father, a woman named after them, it is very appropriate.

Use the ancient words such as:

Palladium - Latin is "blas", the Greek goddess of wisdom,.The words in ancient Chinese, chariot or arrow, its old meaning is now don't have to.

Four, named after the stars

This is the Chinese name of the class element are symphony make a new word.

Tellurium - Latin is "earth"

Selenium - Latin is "the moon"

Helium - Latin is "the sun"

Cerium - Latin is "Ceres"

Uranium - Latin is "Uranus"

Neptunium - Latin is "Neptune"

Plutonium - Latin is "Pluto"

The uranium, neptunium, plutonium element number is 92, 93, 94 respectively, cuddled up together in the periodic table.Uranium was first discovered in 1781, due to Uranus newly discovered soon at that time, and so the appliance.To neptunium, plutonium found in 1934 and 1940, respectively, are naturally, with close to Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in the solar system named after.