There are two elements that are known to be named after ancient lands. These two elements are ruthenium (after the ancient name, Ruthenia, an Eastern European cross-section) and gallium (after Gaul, the ancient name for France).
Marie Curie named the elements polonium and radium.
Americium and Europium are the elements named for large regions which include several countries.
The two elements named after continents are europium (named after Europe) and americium (named after America).
There are no elements named after places since an element is atoms which are all the same not a mixture of two types of atoms nor a compound which is more than three.
They are named by the first two letters of their Latin name.
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There are two elements that are known to be named after ancient lands. These two elements are ruthenium (after the ancient name, Ruthenia, an Eastern European cross-section) and gallium (after Gaul, the ancient name for France).
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Marie Curie named the elements polonium and radium.
Americium and Europium are the elements named for large regions which include several countries.
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Remember that a compound is the combination of two or more elements. Cd is the symbol for an element (not a compount) named Cadmium.
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The two elements named after continents are europium (named after Europe) and americium (named after America).
Two elements named after places are Californium (Cf) and Francium (Fr). Californium is named after the state of California in the United States, while Francium is named after France.
Two elements named after women are Curium (Cm), named after Marie Curie, and Meitnerium (Mt), named after Lise Meitner.