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Sometimes they are named after Greek or Roman gods, like Plutonium (Pluto). Others are named after prominent physicists and chemists (Einsteinium).

There are also elements named after countries (Germanium), regions (Scandium), cities (Holmium is named after Stockholm), small towns (Ytterbium), continents (Europium), Chemical properties (Argon is Greek for "lazy", Tungsten is Swedish for "heavy stone"), or factors to do with their discovery (Neon for "new", Helium after Greek helios = sun, because an important feature of its discovery on Earth was that it matched previously unassigned lines in the spectrum of the sun)

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