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[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

the English versions of element names are mostly stolen from other languages anyway. Some were isolated before the theory of elements and atoms had been solidified, so they already had names in common use. All of the examples you listed for "ium" elements were only discovered in the last few hundred years

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