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List of chemical elements

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118 chemical elements have been identified and named officially by IUPAC. A chemical element, often simply called an element, is a type of atom which has a specific number of protons in its atomic nucleus (i.e., a specific atomic number, or Z).[1]

The definitive visualisation of all 118 elements is the periodic table of the elements, whose history along the principles of the periodic law was one of the founding developments of modern chemistry. It is a tabular arrangement of the elements by their chemical properties that usually uses abbreviated chemical symbols in place of full element names, but the linear list format presented here is also useful. Like the periodic table, the list below organizes the elements by the number of protons in their atoms; it can also be organized by other properties, such as atomic weight, density, and electronegativity. For more detailed information about the origins of element names, see List of chemical element name etymologies.

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  1. Standard atomic weight or Ar°(E)
    • '1.0080': abridged value, uncertainty ignored here
    • '[97]', [ ] notation: mass number of most stable isotope
  2. Values in ( ) brackets are predictions
  3. Density (sources)
  4. Melting point in kelvin (K) (sources)
  5. Boiling point in kelvin (K) (sources)
  6. Heat capacity (sources)
  7. Electronegativity by Pauling (source)
  8. Primordial (=Earth's origin), from decay, or synthetic
  9. Phase at Standard state (25°C [77°F], 100 kPa)
  10. Greek roots hydro- + -gen, 'water-forming'
  11. Greek hḗlios 'sun'
  12. Melting point: helium does not solidify at a pressure of 1 atmosphere. Helium can only solidify at pressures above 25 atm.
  13. Greek líthos 'stone'
  14. Beryl, mineral (ultimately after Belur, Karnataka, India?)[4]
  15. Borax, mineral (from Arabic: bawraq, Middle Persian: *bōrag)
  16. Latin carbo 'coal'
  17. Greek nítron + -gen, 'niter-forming'
  18. Greek oxy- + -gen, 'acid-forming'
  19. Latin fluo 'to flow'
  20. Greek néon 'new'
  21. Coined by Humphry Davy who first isolated it, from English soda (specifically caustic soda), via Italian from Arabic ṣudāʕ 'headache'
  22. Magnesia region, eastern Thessaly, Greece
  23. Alumina, from Latin alumen (gen. aluminis) 'bitter salt, alum'
  24. Latin silex 'flint' (originally silicium)
  25. Greek phōsphóros 'light-bearing'
  26. Latin
  27. Greek chlōrós 'greenish yellow'
  28. Greek argós 'idle' (it is inert)
  29. Neo-Latin potassa 'potash', from pot + ash
  30. Latin calx 'lime'
  31. Latin Scandia 'Scandinavia'
  32. Titans, children of Gaia and Ouranos
  33. Vanadis, a name for Norse goddess Freyja
  34. Greek chróma 'color'
  35. Corrupted from magnesia negra; see magnesium
  36. English, from Proto-Celtic *īsarnom 'iron', from a root meaning 'blood'
  37. Nickel, a mischievous sprite in German miner mythology
  38. English, from Latin cuprum, after Cyprus
  39. Most likely German Zinke, 'prong, tooth', but some suggest Persian sang 'stone'
  40. Latin Gallia 'France'
  41. Middle English, from Middle French arsenic, from Greek arsenikón 'yellow arsenic' (influenced by arsenikós 'masculine, virile'), from a West Asian wanderword ultimately from Old Persian: *zarniya-ka, lit.'golden'
  42. Arsenic sublimes at 1 atmosphere pressure.
  43. Greek selḗnē 'moon'
  44. Greek brômos 'stench'
  45. Greek kryptós 'hidden'
  46. Latin rubidus 'deep red'
  47. Strontian, a village in Scotland, where it was found
  48. Ytterby, Sweden, where it was found; see terbium, erbium, ytterbium
  49. Zircon, mineral, from Persian zargun 'gold-hued'
  50. Niobe, daughter of king Tantalus in Greek myth; see tantalum
  51. Greek molýbdaina 'piece of lead', from mólybdos 'lead', due to confusion with lead ore galena (PbS)
  52. Greek tekhnētós 'artificial'
  53. Neo-Latin Ruthenia 'Russia'
  54. Pallas, asteroid, then considered a planet
  55. English, from Proto-Germanic
  56. Neo-Latin cadmia 'calamine', from King Cadmus, mythic founder of Thebes
  57. Latin indicum 'indigo', the blue color named after India and observed in its spectral lines
  58. English, from Proto-Germanic
  59. Latin antimonium, of unclear origin: folk etymologies suggest Greek antí 'against' + mónos 'alone', or Old French anti-moine 'monk's bane', but could be from or related to Arabic ʾiṯmid 'antimony'
  60. Latin tellus 'ground, earth'
  61. French iode, from Greek ioeidḗs 'violet'
  62. Greek xénon, neuter of xénos 'strange, foreign'
  63. Latin caesius 'sky-blue'
  64. Greek barýs 'heavy'
  65. Greek lanthánein 'to lie hidden'
  66. Ceres (dwarf planet), then considered a planet
  67. Greek prásios dídymos 'green twin'
  68. Greek néos dídymos 'new twin'
  69. Samarskite, a mineral named after V. Samarsky-Bykhovets, Russian mine official
  70. Gadolinite, a mineral named after Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist and mineralogist
  71. Ytterby, Sweden, where it was found; see yttrium, erbium, ytterbium
  72. Greek dysprósitos 'hard to get'
  73. Neo-Latin Holmia 'Stockholm'
  74. Ytterby, where it was found; see yttrium, terbium, ytterbium
  75. Thule, the ancient name for an unclear northern location
  76. Ytterby, where it was found; see yttrium, terbium, erbium
  77. Latin Lutetia 'Paris'
  78. Neo-Latin Hafnia 'Copenhagen' (from Danish havn, harbor)
  79. King Tantalus, father of Niobe in Greek myth; see niobium
  80. Swedish tung sten 'heavy stone'
  81. Latin Rhenus 'Rhine'
  82. Greek osmḗ 'smell'
  83. Iris, Greek goddess of rainbow
  84. Spanish platina 'little silver', from plata 'silver'
  85. English, from same Proto-Indo-European root as 'yellow'
  86. Mercury, Roman god of commerce, communication, and luck, known for his speed and mobility
  87. Greek thallós 'green shoot / twig'
  88. English, from Proto-Celtic *ɸloudom, from a root meaning 'flow'
  89. German Wismut, via Latin and Arabic from Greek psimúthion 'white lead'
  90. Latin Polonia 'Poland', home country of discoverer Marie Curie
  91. Greek ástatos 'unstable'; it has no stable isotopes
  92. Radium emanation, originally the name of 222Rn
  93. France, home country of discoverer Marguerite Perey
  94. Coined in French by discoverer Marie Curie, from Latin radius 'ray'
  95. Greek aktís 'ray'
  96. Thor, the Norse god of thunder
  97. English prefix proto- (from Greek prôtos 'first, before') + actinium; protactinium decays into actinium.
  98. Uranus, the seventh planet
  99. Neptune, the eighth planet
  100. Pluto, dwarf planet, then considered a planet
  101. Americas, where the element was first synthesized, by analogy with its homolog europium
  102. Pierre and Marie Curie, physicists and chemists
  103. Berkeley, California, where it was first synthesized
  104. California, where it was first synthesized in LBNL
  105. Albert Einstein, German physicist
  106. Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist
  107. Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist who proposed the periodic table
  108. Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer
  109. Ernest Lawrence, American physicist
  110. Ernest Rutherford, chemist and physicist from New Zealand
  111. Dubna, Russia, where it was discovered in JINR
  112. Glenn Seaborg, American chemist
  113. Niels Bohr, Danish physicist
  114. Neo-Latin Hassia 'Hesse', a state in Germany
  115. Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist
  116. Darmstadt, Germany, where it was first synthesized in the GSI labs
  117. Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist
  118. Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer
  119. Japanese Nihon 'Japan', where it was first synthesized in Riken
  120. Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, part of JINR, where it was synthesized; itself named after Georgy Flyorov, Russian physicist
  121. Moscow, Russia, where it was first synthesized in JINR
  122. Tennessee, US, home to ORNL
  123. Yuri Oganessian, Russian physicist
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