Calcium from the Latin word calcis.
cos they're not circles? If you mean the elements themselves (The letters on the blocks), there are several reasons. 1: The element was named after the person who discovered the element. 2: The element was named after a person/place/word that the discoverer chose. Some examples are: "Caesium" (Cs) which is a metal element that was named after the Latin word for "deep blue". "Fermium" (Fm) which was found in the wreckage of the first atomic bomb and was named after Enrico Fermi, who worked on the bomb. "Californium" (Cf) which was named after the University of California in Berkeley.
In chemistry, the symbol for sodium is Na from Latin " Natrium". The word sodium is from the Latin word for salt.
Sn is the element that derived its symbol from the Latin word stannum. This element has an atomic number of 50.
Francium. See the related link for more information. In addition, Gallium comes from the the Latin word Gallia, the old name of France.
It was not named after anybody. The word "flute" comes from the Latin root "fluere", meaning "to flow".
fluorine got its name from the latin word fluere, which means flow.
The Latin root of fluere is "flu-" which means "to flow". This root is commonly found in words related to flowing or movement, such as fluctuate and influence.
"Confluence" is from the Latin prefix con- ("together") and verb fluere, "to flow".
iridium
It's iridium.
The element iron comes from the latin word Ferrum but in english it's Iron the word ferrum probably refers to the color.
(Latin: flow, flowing; moving in a continuous and smooth way; wave, moving back and forth) Dean Cook (www.paranormalsceneinvestigators.co.uk)
Rubidus is a Latin word that means red. The element Rubidium is named after rubidus.
ρευστό [refsto] = fluidυγρό [eegro] = liquidfluid < (Latin) fluere < (Greek) φλύω/φλέω = to swell (like a wave) >> fluctuation
The Latin word for 'element' is 'elementum' .
The name radium is derived from the Latin language word radius (equivalent to radiation).