Descubridor

No.	Symbol	Elemento	Nombrado por	Descripción
1	H	Hidrógeno	Nombrado por Antoine Lavoisier	The name is derived from the Greek hyrdo- (ὑδρο) meaning "water" and -genes (γενής) meaning "former".
2	He	Helio	Nombrado por Edward Frankland, Norman Lockyer	The name is derived from the Greek word for sun, helios. Helios is also the name of the Greek god of the Sun.
3	Li	Litio		The name is derived from the Greek word 'lithos' meaning, 'stone.'
4	Be	Berilio		The name is derived from the beryllos, the Greek name for the mineral beryl, the element was originally known as glucinium - from Greek glykys, meaning 'sweet' - to reflect its characteristic taste.
5	B	Boro		The name is derived from the Arabic word 'buraq', a term signifying the element.
6	C	Carbono		The name probably is derived from the Latin carbo, meaning variously “coal”, “charcoal”, “ember”, and its word origin can be traced to ancient times.
7	N	Nitrógeno	Nombrado por Jean-Antoine Chaptal	The name is derived from the Latin nitrum and the Greek nitron for "native soda" and genes for "forming".
8	O	Oxígeno	Nombrado por Antoine Lavoisier	The name is derived from the Greek words oxy and genes, which together mean "acid forming."
9	F	Flúor	Nombrado por Humphry Davy, André-Marie Ampère	The name is derived from the mineral fluorite which comes from the Latin word fluere meaning "to flow".
10	Ne	Neón		The name is derived from the Greek word, νέον, neuter singular form of νέος (neos), meaning 'new'.
11	Na	Sodio		The name is derived from the English word soda and Medieval Latin word sodanum for "headache remedy".
12	Mg	Magnesio		The name is derived from the Greek word Magnesia, a district of Eastern Thessaly in Greece where the mineral magnesia alba was first found.
13	Al	Aluminio	Nombrado por Humphry Davy	The name is derived from the ancient Latin name for alum, which was alumen, meaning bitter salt.
14	Si	Silicio	Nombrado por Thomas Thomson (chemist)	The name is derived from the Latin word silex or silicis, meaning flint or hard stone.
15	P	Fósforo		The name is derived from the Greek word phosphoros, meaning bringer of light because it has the property of glowing in the dark. Phosphorus was the ancient name for the planet Venus.
16	S	Azufre		The name is derived either from Arabic word ‘sufra’ meaning yellow (which is the color of the naturally occurring form of the element) or from the Sanskrit word sulvere or the Latin word sulfurium, which meaning sulfur or brimstone.
17	Cl	Cloro	Nombrado por Sir Humphry Davy	The name is derived from the Greek word chloros, meaning pale green or yellow-green.
18	Ar	Argón		The name is derived from the Greek word argos (ἀργόν), meaning lazy or idle, as a reference to the fact that the element undergoes almost no chemical reactions.
19	K	Potasio		The name is derived from the English word potash (pot ashes) from which potassium was first isolated.
20	Ca	Calcio		The name is derived from the Latin word 'calx' meaning lime, which was obtained from heating limestone.
21	Sc	Escandio		The name derives from the Latin word 'Scandia', meaning Scandinavia, because the element occurs in rare minerals found there.
22	Ti	Titanio	Nombrado por Martin Heinrich Klaproth	The name comes from Greek word Titans, the mythological "first sons of the Earth".
23	V	Vanadio	Nombrado por Nils Gabriel Sefström	The name originated from 'Vanadis', the old Norse name for the Scandinavian goddess of of love and beauty (Freyja), because of the beautiful multicolored compounds formed by the metal.
24	Cr	Cromo		The name is derived from the Greek word 'chroma', meaning color because it forms a variety of colorful compounds.
25	Mn	Manganeso		The name either derives from the Latin word 'magnes', meaning magnet, or from ‘magnesia nigra’ indicating the black magnesium oxide in Latin.
26	Fe	Hierro		The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon word 'iren'. The element has been known from prehistoric times.
27	Co	Cobalto		The name is derived from the German word 'kobald', meaning goblin or evil spirit. It was named by miners in 16th century Saxony who thought they had found deposits of silver but had actually found cobalt arsenide.
28	Ni	Níquel		The name is derived from a mischievous sprite of German miner mythology, Nickel (similar to Old Nick), who personified the fact that copper-nickel ores resisted refinement into copper. It also from the German word for the mineral niccolite, kupfernickel, which means "Old Nick's copper."
29	Cu	Cobre		The name is derived from the Old English name 'coper' in turn derived from the Latin ‘Cyprium aes’, meaning ‘Cyprus metal’, the island where the Romans first obtained copper.
30	Zn	Zinc	Nombrado por Paracelsus	The name is derived from the German word 'zinc', a word of unknown origin.
31	Ga	Galio		The name is derived from the Latin name Gallia, the old name of France, in honor of its discoverer's home country.
32	Ge	Germanio		The name is derived from the Latin for Germany, 'Germania', in honor of its discoverer's home country.
33	As	Arsénico		The name is thought to come from the Greek word 'arsenikon' meaning yellow orpiment or from the Greek word 'arsenikos' meaning strong, brave or male. Word was adopted in Latin as arsenicum, which in French became arsenic, from which the English word arsenic is taken.
34	Se	Selenio		The name is derived from the Greek word 'selene', who was the Greek goddess and the personification of the Moon because the element is chemically found with tellurium (Tellus was the Roman goddess of the Earth).
35	Br	Bromo		The name comes from the Ancient Greek 'bromos' (βρῶμος) meaning stench, referring to its sharp and pungent smell.
36	Kr	Kriptón		The name is derived from the Greek word 'kryptos', meaning concealed or 'the hidden one'.
37	Rb	Rubidio		The name is derived from the Latin word 'rubidius', meaning deep red because of the two "deep red lines" in its spectra.
38	Sr	Estroncio		The name is derived from Strontian, a small town in Scotland where the metal was first discovered in 1790.
39	Y	Itrio		The name derived from the Swedish village of Ytterby near Vaxholm where the mineral gadolinite was found.
40	Zr	Circonio		The name is derived from the Arabic word 'zargun', meaning gold coloured.
41	Nb	Niobio		The name is derived from the Greek goddess of tears, Niobe, who was the daughter of king Tantalus, due to the element's similarities to tantalum.
42	Mo	Molibdeno		The name comes from Ancient Greek word molybdos (Μόλυβδος) meaning lead-like, as its ores were confused with lead ores.
43	Tc	Tecnecio		The name is derived from the Greek word 'tekhnetos' meaning artificial, because it was the first manmade element synthesized.
44	Ru	Rutenio		The name is derived from 'Ruthenia', the Latin name for Russia, as the platinum ores were originally from the Ural Mountains in Russia.
45	Rh	Rodio		The name is derived from the Greek word 'rhodon', meaning rose coloured, named for the rose-red color of dilute solutions of its salts.
46	Pd	Paladio		The name comes from the second largest asteroid in the solar system Pallas. The asteroid itself was named after the Greek goddess of wisdom Pallas Athena.
47	Ag	Plata
48	Cd	Cadmio	Nombrado por Friedrich Stromeyer
49	In	Indio
50	Sn	Estaño
51	Sb	Antimonio
52	Te	Telurio	Nombrado por Martin Heinrich Klaproth
53	I	Yodo	Nombrado por Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
54	Xe	Xenón	Nombrado por William Ramsay
55	Cs	Cesio
56	Ba	Bario
57	La	Lantano	Nombrado por Carl Gustaf Mosander
58	Ce	Cerio	Nombrado por Jöns Jacob Berzelius
59	Pr	Praseodimio
60	Nd	Neodimio
61	Pm	Prometio	Nombrado por Grace Mary Coryell
62	Sm	Samario	Nombrado por Lecoq de Boisbaudran
63	Eu	Europio
64	Gd	Gadolinio
65	Tb	Terbio
66	Dy	Disprosio	Nombrado por Lecoq de Boisbaudran	The name is derived from the Greek word 'dysprositos', which means 'hard to get at'.
67	Ho	Holmio	Nombrado por Per Teodor Cleve	The name is derived from the Latin word for the city of Stockholm, Holmia.
68	Er	Erbio
69	Tm	Tulio
70	Yb	Iterbio
71	Lu	Lutecio	Nombrado por Georges Urbain
72	Hf	Hafnio
73	Ta	Tántalo
74	W	Tungsteno	Nombrado por Torbern Bergman
75	Re	Renio
76	Os	Osmio	Nombrado por Smithson Tennant
77	Ir	Iridio
78	Pt	Platino
79	Au	Oro
80	Hg	Mercurio
81	Tl	Talio
82	Pb	Plomo
83	Bi	Bismuto
84	Po	Polonio	Nombrado por Pierre Curie, Marie Curie
85	At	Astato
86	Rn	Radón
87	Fr	Francio
88	Ra	Radio
89	Ac	Actinio	Nombrado por André-Louis Debierne
90	Th	Torio
91	Pa	Protactinio	Nombrado por Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner
92	U	Uranio
93	Np	Neptunio
94	Pu	Plutonio
95	Am	Americio
96	Cm	Curio
97	Bk	Berkelio
98	Cf	Californio
99	Es	Einstenio
100	Fm	Fermio
101	Md	Mendelevio
102	No	Nobelio
103	Lr	Lawrencio
104	Rf	Rutherfordio
105	Db	Dubnio
106	Sg	Seaborgio
107	Bh	Bohrio
108	Hs	Hasio
109	Mt	Meitnerio
110	Ds	Darmstatio
111	Rg	Roentgenio
112	Cn	Copernicio
113	Nh	Nihonio
114	Fl	Flerovio
115	Mc	Moscovio
116	Lv	Livermorio
117	Ts	Teneso
118	Og	Oganesón

Denominación de elementos químicos.