Sir Humphry Davy named this yellowish-green gas from a Greek word meaning "greenish-yellow"
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List of chemical element name etymologies - Wikipedia  This is the list of etymologies for all chemical element names. Contents. [hide]. 1 Table; 2 Proposed names of new elements; 3 See also; 4 References; 5 Further reading. Table[edit]. Element, Language of origin, Original word, Meaning, Symbol origin ... Sir Humphry Davy gave the element this name because it was originally...
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Chlorinethe essentials [WebElements Periodic Table]  Chlorine is a greenish yellow gas which combines directly with nearly all elements. ... Standard state: gas at 298 K; Colour: yellowish green; Classification: Non-metallic ... Origin of name: from the Greek word "chloros" meaning "pale green". ... Sir Humphry Davy proposed and confirmed chlorine to be an element in 1810,...
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List of Chemical Element Name Etymologies - LiquiSearch  Name, Symbol, Language of origin, Word of origin, Meaning, Symbol origin ... Sir Humphry Davy gave the element this name because it was originally found in baryte, ... The word is derived (via Latin: Beryllus and French: Bryl) from the Greek ... means "yellowish green" or "greenish yellow", because of the color of the gas.
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Name - Chlorine  Properties of Chlorine - Chlorine is a poisonous, yellowish-green gas with a strong, ... In 1810 an English chemist named Sir Humphrey Davy determined that chlorine was an element. It was named by the greek word meaning greenish-yellow.
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Chemical Element: chlorine - Word Information  Greek: chloros, grass-green; a reference to the color of the gas which tends ... a Swedish chemist, and credit is given to Sir Humphry Davy for showing that ... Chlorine is greenish-yellow and its name is derived from the Greek word for green.
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Chemistry: Eighteenth Century - Science in Context - Gale  This is shown clearly in the very successful textbook of the Frenchman Nicolas ... The brilliant Swedish analytical chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-86), whose work ... Several German authors described it as a substance often found in .... Black had, therefore, discovered a new gas, although he insisted on calling it an air.
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nitrous oxide facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  This fact helped give the gas its popular nickname, "laughing gas." Davy published his findings in 1800, remarking that "As nitrous oxide  appears capable of...
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Antoine Lavoisier - Biography, Facts and Pictures - Famous Scientists  He named the elements carbon, hydrogen and oxygen; discovered oxygen's ... In 1772 Lavoisier and other chemists bought a diamond and placed it in a closed glass jar. ... He started calling it dephlogisticated air, believing its unusual properties ... as a new element in 1766; Cavendish had called the gas inflammable air.
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Hydrogen - Chemicool  He is reported to have said of the experiment, Air arises and breaks forth like a wind. He did ... French scientist Antoine Lavoisier later named the element hydrogen (1783). The name comes from the Greek 'hydro' meaning water and 'genes' meaning forming  hydrogen is one of the two water forming elements. In 1806...
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It's Elemental - The Element Chromium  From the Greek word for color, chroma. Say what? Chromium is pronounced as KROH-mee-em. History and Uses: Chromium was discovered by Louis-Nicholas...
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Hippocratic Method and the Four Humors in Medicine  Ancient Greek Genetic Theory. 4. Is "First Do No Harm" From the Hippocratic ... be new, this art of balancing bodily fluids has been practiced since Hippocrates' day. ... of a single man of that name) disease was thought to be caused by isonomia (2), ... Autumn: black bile; Spring: blood; Winter: phlegm; Summer: yellow bile.
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List of chemical element name etymologies - Wikipedia  This is the list of etymologies for all chemical element names. Contents. [hide]. 1 Table; 2 .... (The asteroid, now classified as a dwarf planet, was named after Ceres, the goddess of ... Europe was named after the fictional Phoenician princess Europa. .... gaseous properties, as well as its rarity in nature (like other noble gases).
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Ten things you never knew about... gas - PressReader  Jan 21, 2015 ... The word ' gas' was coined by the 17th century Flemish chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont. 2. He is thought to have formed the word from the Greek ' chaos', which was the primal unformed mass out ... Another theory is that van Helmont invented the word ' gas' from ' gahst' or ' geist' meaning a ghost or spirit.
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Science - jService.io - Jeopardy trivia question API  In testing out gases by smelling them (not a good idea) Humphry Davy found in 1800 that this one made him feel giddy, nitrous oxide (or laughing gas), March...
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The Meanings Behind 20 Chemical Element Names | Mental Floss  Jan 21, 2016 ... Lithium takes its name from the Greek word for stone. ... solutions were, the Swedish chemist Nils Sefstrm chose to name vanadium ... Because of the greenish color of its mineral salts, the lanthanide metal praseodymium takes its ... mineralogist named Gustav Rose access to a collection of samples taken...
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Sir Humphry Davy and the coal miners of the world: a commentary ...  In the period between 1815 and 1818, Sir Humphry Davy read four papers to the ... he performed at the Royal Institution and some of the subsequent trials made ... Keywords: fire-damp, coal mines, safety lamp, science of combustion ... These experiments won him great acclaim from the eminent Swedish chemist Berzelius.
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Chemistry Flashcards | Quizlet  THE ELEMENTS---This element, whose name means "greenish-yellow", is used to make laundry clean & bright. chlorine.
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The Parts of the Periodic Table - Angelo State University  Derivations of the Names and Symbols of the Elements ... 18, Ar, Argon, Greek: argos, "idle" (because of its unreactivity) ... "water forming" (this name was given to the element by the French chemist Antoine ... 61, Pm, Promethium, Named after the Greek god Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind.
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Gallium - Royal Society of Chemistry  Discovery date, 1875. Discovered by, Paul-mile Lecoq de Boisbaudran. Origin of the name, The name is derived from the Latin name for France, 'Gallia'.
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Davy, Humphry - used, first, anesthetic, body, Conducts Research ...  Humphry Davy (1778-1829) grew up poor, helping his mother pay off debts left by ... While studying nitrous oxide gas, he discovered that it made him feel dizzy and ... Davy recognized, however, that the gas could also be used to dull physical...
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chartreuse - Memidex dictionary/thesaurus  a color halfway between yellow and green that was named because of its ... an aromatic liqueur, usually yellow or green, made by the Carthusian monks at...