Can you name the elements not named after a person, place, or animal*?

Element	Origin
	Latin for ray
	Latin for bitter salt
	English for potash
	Latin for white mass
	German for prong point
	Just gold
	Greek for hard to get at
	Greek for hidden
	Germanic for holy metal
	Greek for new twin
	Swedish for copper-colored ore
	Greek for stench
	Greek for green twin
	Persian for borax
	Greek for first beam element
	Greek for a smell
	Latin for flint
	Greek for potent

Element	Origin
	English for Radium emanation
	Swedish for heavy stone
	Spanish for little silver
	Greek for unstable
	Greek for to bring forth acid
	Greek for stone
	Just lead
	Greek for lead-like
	Latin/Greek for I make native-soda
	Greek for artificial
	Greek for inactive
	Latin for limestone
	Latin/Greek for I make water
	Arabic for gold-like
	Greek for rose
	Greek for to lie hidden
	Greek for light-bearer
	Greek for beam

Element	Origin
	Arabic for yellow
	Greek for green twig
	Latin for indigo
	Greek for pale green
	Latin for deepest red
	Greek for violet
	Greek for opposed to solitude
	Latin for sky blue
	Latin for a flowing
	Latin for charcoal
	Greek for beryl
	Greek for new
	Greek for foreign
	Greek for color
	Anglo-Saxon for to refine
	English for soda
	Greek for heavy
	Just tin

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Unfamous Elements Quiz

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Created Mar 27, 2011 in Science
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	NvjdsIsSmart:	Apr 13th, 2011 at 20:10 GMT	4 points
	I sure am glad that no one was named 'Praseodymium'.

	greebles:	Apr 13th, 2011 at 20:13 GMT	3 points
	I thought I was on to a winner with yttrium and ytterbium! Anyone know what they were named after?

	Sbb618:	Apr 13th, 2011 at 20:21 GMT	9 points
	greebles: yttrium, ytterbium, erbium, and terbium are named after the quarries near Ytterby, Sweden. Would have gotten them all if i could spell praseodymium!

	AlexRandom:	Apr 13th, 2011 at 20:29 GMT	9 points
	"Hard to get at" dysprosium certainly lives up to its name!

	pope_alex_vii:	Apr 13th, 2011 at 20:32 GMT	29 points
	And to think, Krypton isn't named for that distant planet Superman calls his home.

	CraigR:	Apr 13th, 2011 at 21:02 GMT	21 points
	Just Gold. Just Lead. Just Tin.

	slamb:	Apr 13th, 2011 at 21:28 GMT	14 points
	So the Argonauts were a bunch of lazy do nothings?

	cmkeller:	Apr 13th, 2011 at 21:59 GMT	19 points
	Surprise - I for sure thought that Rhodium and Indium were named after places.

	yankeespurs101:	Apr 13th, 2011 at 22:04 GMT	6 points
	When I saw the mythilogical thing at the top, I was sure there was an element called "unicornium"

	LiamAllen:	Apr 13th, 2011 at 22:21 GMT	2 points
	Playing this quiz made me realise that I need to brush up on my elements.

	Ivar:	Apr 13th, 2011 at 22:32 GMT	2 points
	Wait, are carbon and oxygen really unfamous elements?

	StupidBunny:	Apr 13th, 2011 at 22:33 GMT	11 points
	Should be a bonus for "unobtainium"

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	sproutcm:	Apr 14th, 2011 at 00:03 GMT	15 points
	@Dorak actually your quiz is nothing like this one and yours is a duplicate of a much older quiz.

	tobley:	Apr 14th, 2011 at 00:16 GMT	3 points
	@Dorak Yes, I do remember seeing your quiz (and a few others like it) after coming up with the idea for mine. I, presumably like a lot of other quiz makers, search for a long time to make sure that the same quiz has not been made before.

	westing1992:	Apr 14th, 2011 at 00:37 GMT	9 points
	I was surprised that Copper wasn't on there. As it turns out, its name was originally taken from the island of Cyprus, where much of it was mined. Who knew?

	dancastro:	Apr 14th, 2011 at 00:58 GMT	1 point
	The etymology of antimony from Greek anti 'against' and monos 'one, alone' seems a little far fetched. What I have read is that the Latin "antimonium" comes from an Arabic word (utmud or something alike). In Europe the name was given a spelling closer to Latin, as there were many Latin words that began with "anti-" and many others that ended in "-monium". (Of course, it makes no difference for its inclusion in this quiz).

	kymuni:	Apr 14th, 2011 at 01:00 GMT	7 points
	Learned a lot from the origin areas, thank you for adding that.

	PK9:	Apr 14th, 2011 at 01:20 GMT	8 points
	So Xenon wasn't named after Xena, Warrior Princess? :P

	mininimi:	Apr 14th, 2011 at 01:30 GMT	2 points
	all the important ones are on this list

	Koltrane:	Apr 14th, 2011 at 02:14 GMT	1 point
	Wow, I always thought Technetium was named after Cal Tech or some university where it was discovered, it being a synthetic element. You learn something new every day.

	pirate6711:	Apr 14th, 2011 at 02:51 GMT	1 point
	Very surprised copper wasn't on here. Learn something new everyday.

	mcsheffrey:	Apr 14th, 2011 at 03:09 GMT	1 point
	Really? More people get boron than iron or nitrogen? Wow, that is the biggest shock to me on this quiz...by far.

	gellchom:	Apr 14th, 2011 at 04:04 GMT	2 points
	What an interesting idea for a quiz! Thanks. I enjoyed learning a lot.

	RetroGirl:	Apr 14th, 2011 at 05:23 GMT	2 points
	I enjoyed the etymology so much that it slowed me down. "Ooh, Greek for "stench", you say?" Also: Greek for Beryl?

	thgil:	Apr 14th, 2011 at 06:44 GMT	2 points
	Got dysprosium and neodymium but didn't get aluminum, I must have a bad case of Sporclitis

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	jefe_:	Apr 14th, 2011 at 08:53 GMT	5 points
	I started off thinking "*Includes both real and mythological" referred to the elements instead of people, so I tried fire, aether, and unobtanium before feeling rather foolish.

	TreehuggnCowgirl:	Apr 14th, 2011 at 09:19 GMT	3 points
	I think it's pretty awesome that there's an element named after kobolds.

	libbys:	Apr 14th, 2011 at 11:50 GMT	-3 points
	You missed Helium, name comes from greek helios meaning sun!

	Lulu:	Apr 14th, 2011 at 12:29 GMT	1 point
	Out of interest, what's copper named after?