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Uranium is taken from the planet Uranus.

Uranus is from Classical Greece and refers to the sky.

The nest two elements after uranium follows the planetarty series.

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Neptunium ; Neptune ( The classical Roman god of the Sea).

Plutonium ; Pluto ( The Roman god of the underwortld.).

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The name "uranium" comes from the planet Uranus. It was discovered in 1789 by Martin Heinrich Klaproth, who named it in honor of the newly discovered planet, Uranus.

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The name of the chemical element is derived from the name of the planet Uranus.

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