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Elements with names from German

German names appear among elements discovered or characterised by 18th and 19th-century German chemists: cobalt (from kobold, goblin), nickel (from a German miner's term), bismuth (from wismuth) and tungsten (whose symbol W comes from the German wolfram).

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No. Symbol Element Original word Meaning Name source Named by
27 Co Cobalt kobold Goblin Mythology
28 Ni Nickel kupfernickel Devil's copper Mythology
30 Zn Zinc zink Zink Properties Paracelsus
62 Sm Samarium Samarskit Samarskite Mineral Lecoq de Boisbaudran
83 Bi Bismuth wismuth White mass Properties
110 Ds Darmstadtium Darmstadt Darmstadt Place GSI