The element curium was named after Marie and Pierre Curie, two scientists who discovered radium and polonium.
Chromium is the element with atomic number 24 and symbol Cr. It was discovered in 1797 and was the first element to be named after a color, in this case the Greek word “chroma,” meaning color.
Indium-Indigo- colour
Chlorine- Chloro- colour
Neptunium-Neptune-planet
Europium-Europe-Continent
Americium- America- Continent
Francium-France-Country
Rubedium is a synthetic element named after the Latin word for red, rubedus.
Plutonium-Planet-Pluto
Titanium is a chemical element named after the Titans of Greek mythology.
Mendelevium is a synthetic radioactive element with atomic number 101, and is named after Dmitry Mendeleev, the creator of the periodic table.
Rutherfordium is named after Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who is known as the “father of nuclear physics”. Rutherford is credited with discovering the structure of the atom, which he called the nuclear atom.
