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Yes. IUPAC - The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists usually approve these.
Yes they need to be approved by the IUPAC - The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists. This is for standardisation purposes. Usually elements are named after the place or person who discovered/isolated them.
a American name for petrol is gasoline
I don't know for sure. I do know that Lithium's symbol (Li) came from one of two chemists: either John Dalton, who invented the system of using symbols to describe elements, or J. A. Arfvedson, who discovered and named the element. Both chemists lived at about the same time.
The word "Teflon" is a trademarked brand name for a type of nonstick coating. It comes from the chemical compound polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), which was discovered and developed by chemists at DuPont in the 1930s.
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its named after the bright indigo line in its spectrum
It is a convention between chemists.
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Petrol is the term used for gasoline in some countries, like UK, Australia, New Zealand
Petrol is British name for Gasoline