The Polish names of the elements always look strange to me. They don’t have the -ium ending, making some of the very short and awkward, like osm and itr.
But more kiurious is element 96, curium or kiur.
The spelling is weird and doesn’t give much hint to the origin of the name being… 1/2
#chemsky
But more kiurious is element 96, curium or kiur.
The spelling is weird and doesn’t give much hint to the origin of the name being… 1/2
#chemsky
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Curie, last name of Polish national patron saint of science Maria and her husband Pierre.
Instead, the spelling invokes the pronunciation of the element in English.
Wolfram comes from German and the etymology is a bit weird.
In Swedish, tungsten is actually called wolfram, despite the former being a Swedish word. 🤷♂️
But I see, Polish go ahead and droped -i- too.
Oh, seems like that's neat, not in compound with uhlík and kyslík 😞
https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vod%C3%ADk
There were more, but most of them are archaic today: Al hlınecj, Ca vapenj, Sb surma
It reminded me of how plutonium was referred to as copper during the Manhattan Project. And said honest-to-God copper for the real thing.
From Kit Chapman’s excellent book “superheavy”.