Element Names and Origins Numerical Order

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Hydrogen - Greek: hydro + genes, 'water forming' (name given to the element by the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier)

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He

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Helium - Greek: helios, 'Sun' (discovered in an analysis of the light emitted from the Sun's corona during a solar eclipse)

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Li

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Lithium - Greek: lithos, 'stone'

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Be

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Beryllium - Named after the Greek word for the mineral beryl, beryllo

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Boron - Arabic: buraq, 'borax' (sodium borate)

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Carbon - Latin: carbo, 'charcoal'

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Nitrogen - Latin: nitron + genes, 'nitre forming' (Nitre is potassium nitrate.)

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Oxygen - Latin: oxy + genes, 'acid forming' (Name given by Antoine Lavoisier, believed to be an essential component of all acids.)

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Fluorine - Latin: fluere, 'to flow'

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Neon - Greek: neos, 'new'