By the first letter or Latin name
These names are the names of chemical elements.
some are in latin, some in english, the periodic table of the elements is all different languages.
It is named The PERIODIC TABLE. The periods being the horizontal rows The groups being the vertical columns.
The Periodic Table Of Elements Was Invented iN 1869, By A Russian Chemist Named Dmitri Mendeleev.
There were 103 elements on the periodic table in 1968.
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There are a total of 118 elements known to exist on the periodic table.
There is no element named "boyfriend" on the periodic table. The periodic table consists of chemical elements such as hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon.
The current periodic table contains 118 elements, as of April 2010, but many more may still be discovered.
Californium named after California.
I don't believe any of them just came out of the sky, if you will. Some of them are named after Roman Gods, some of them are Latin (from A LONG time ago), and some of them are named after their discoverers.