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Why do most elements end with ium?

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because ium is a scientific word for element

It is a Latin word suffix for nouns identifying their syntactic place in a sentence. Another Latin word suffix is us. One means subject and the other means object of sentence, but I can't remember which is which right now.

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Because -ium is a Latin termination and this is an old tradition of the nomenclature.

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It is just plain old luck

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Latin word suffix.

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