Can you name the elements named after places? by TOARCH95

Can you name the elements named after places?

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Please list elements that are named after TERRESTRIAL places, not celestial bodies.
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Element	Place
	America
	Berkeley, California
	California
	Darmstadt, Germany
	Dubna, Russia
	Europe
	France
	Germany
	Hesse, Germany
	Magnesia Prefecture (Thessaly, Greece)
	Magnesia Prefecture, Greece
	Poland

Element	Place
	Ytterby, Sweden
	Ytterby, Sweden
	Ytterby, Sweden
	Ytterby, Sweden
	Gallia (Latin for France)
	Hafnia (Latin of Copenhagen)
	Holmia (Latin for Stockholm)
	Lutetia (Latin for Paris)
	Rhenus (Latin for Rhine)
	Ruthenia (Latin for Russia)
	Scandia (Latin for Scandinavia)
Scandia (Latin for Scandinavia)
Scandia (Latin for Scandinavia)
Scandia (Latin for Scandinavia)

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Elements Named After Places Quiz

by TOARCH95

Created Dec 3, 2009 in Science
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	shakescene:	Dec 3rd, 2009 at 23:19 GMT	1 point
	Prefecture (rather than "prefecture"). How about Indium? Is that from India?

	TOARCH95:	Dec 3rd, 2009 at 23:25 GMT	2 points
	Indium is derived from the word "indigo" because of its indigo spectrum line

	simpleerrors:	Dec 3rd, 2009 at 23:29 GMT	1 point
	Plutonium/neptunium/uranium for those planets? I can't believe I missed all four Ytterby ones.

	TOARCH95:	Dec 3rd, 2009 at 23:41 GMT	2 points
	this quiz only states elements named after EARTH places, not celestial bodies.

	DeaconEcon:	Dec 4th, 2009 at 00:46 GMT	3 points
	Copper's name comes from cyprium (Latin) after Cyprus (where it was mined).

	James_Kay:	Dec 4th, 2009 at 17:49 GMT	1 point
	I think it's the right thing to omit uranium/neptunium/plutonium. If you include these, you'd have to include cerium and palladium, named after the asteroids ceres and pallas. You may want to add a note in the "game note" box that there are only considering terrestrial places.

	grant1314:	Dec 4th, 2009 at 18:47 GMT	2 points
	strontium is after the scottish village where it was mined

	Pyrophorus:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 02:44 GMT	3 points
	Why is strontium only extra credit? Seems perfectly valid to me...the other extra credit ones are a mythical place and an element where the etymology is debatable, but Strontian seems fine.

	TOARCH95:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 03:11 GMT	1 point
	Correct me if i'm wrong, but it says in internet sources that "Strontium" was named after the mineral "Strontianite", which in turn was named after the Scottish village Strontian.

	IM_WoodgerC:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 18:34 GMT	-1 points
	Silver is Ag because of Argentum - Argentina, so should also be an answer

	JimmyJames:	Feb 20th, 2010 at 15:17 GMT	1 point
	But it was called argentum before there were Europeans in South America. 'Argentina' was named for silver, not the other way around. Good idea for a quiz, though.