Names that did not make it (original) (raw)

In the window to the left you will find an alphabetical list of all variant names and names of non-existent elements.
Not included are the names of the elements known from antiquity, which have their own names in all languages (see The seven metals known from antiquity in >100 languages).

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Accretium – Cf
Actinium – Zn
Actinium-A to D, K, X – Ac Table
Actinium Emanation – Rn
Actin(e)on (An) – Rn
Actino-uranium – Ac
Agusterde – Be
Alabamine (Ab), Alabamium (Am) – At
Alcaligène – N
Alcalinium, Alkalinium – Fr
Aldebaranium – Yb
Alkalinium, Alcalinium – Fr
Alumium – Al
Andronia, Andronium – Si
Anglium – Ar
Anglohelvetium (Ah) – At
Angularium – Ge
Antimonium – Sb
Archonium – He
Argon (A) – Ar
Aridium – Fe
Asterium – He
Athenium (An) – Es
Aurum paradoxium – Te
Ausonium (Ao) – Np
Austrium – Mg – Y
Azote (Az) – N
Barytium – Ba
Berzelium – Thand Y
(Bz) – Pr
Bohemium (Bo) – Np
Boracium – B
Brevium (Bv) – Pa
Carolinium – Thand Y
Cassiopeium (Cp) – Lu
Celtium (Ct) – Hf
Centium – Md
Centurium (Ct) – Fm
Cererium – Ce
Ceresium – Pd
Colonium – Cf
Columbium (Cb) – Nb Am
Coronium – Fe
Crodonium – Mg
Cyclonium – Pm Cf (Cy)No
Cyclotronium – Cf
Dakin – At
Damarium (D) – Y
Damonium – Y
Danium – Hf
Danubium (Da) – Tc
Davyum – Tc
Decipium (Dp) – Sm
Demonium – Dy
Denebium – Y
Deuterium – H
Dianium – Nb
Didymium (Di) – Pr & Nd
Diplogenium – H
Donarium – Th
Dor (Do) – At
Dubhium – Y
Dubnadium (Dn) (proposed) – Uuo

DVI = Two (Sanskrite)

Dvi-Manganese – Re
Dvi-Rubidium – Fr
Dvi-Tellurium (Dt) – Po (Uuh)

EKA = One (Sanskrite)

Eka-Aluminium – Ga
Eka-Boron – Sc
Eka-Caesium – Fr
Eka-Gold (Eka-Aurum?) – Bk (Rg)
Eka-Iodine – At
Eka-Iridium – Am (Mt)
Eka-Manganese – Tc
Eka-Osmium – Pu (Hs)
Eka-Platinum – Cm (Ds)
Eka-Rhenium – Np (Bh)
Eka-Silicon – Ge
Eka-Tantalum – Pa (Db)

Emanium – Ac
En(ne)actinium – Cf
Eosium – Kr
Erythronium – V
Esperium, Hesperium (Es) – Pu
Euprosium – Cf
Eurosamarium – Y
Euxenium (Ex) – Hfand Y
Exactinio – Rn
Exradio – Rn
Exthorio – Rn
Extremium – Pu
Florentium (Fr) – Pm
Flyorium (proposed) – Uuo
Francium (Fa) – Fr
G – Tb
Geocoronium – N
Ghiorsium (proposed) – Uuo
Glaucodymium – Unknown Glucinium, Glucium – Be
Gourium – At
Helvetium (Hv) – At
Hesperium, Esperium (Es) – Pu
Hibernium – Ar Ra
Idumium – Unknown
Illinium (Il) – Pm Bk
Ilmenium (Il) – Nb Sm
Incognitium (Ic) – Tb
Infra-Carbon – C
Ionium – Tb
Japonium (Jp) (proposed) – Uut
Jargonium (Jg) – Hf – Zr
Joliotium – Db
Junonium (J) – Cd and Y
Klaprothium – Cd
Kosmium (Ko) – Unknown
Lawrencium (Lw) – Lr
Leptin – At
Lawrencium – Cf
Lewisium – Cf
Littorium – Np
Lucium – Tcand Y
Magnium – Mg
Masrium (Ms) – Inand Y
Masurium (Ma) – Tc
Meitnium (Mt) – Pa
Melinium – Cd
Menachin – Ti
Mendelevium – Bk
(Me) Er
(Mv) Md
Mesothorium – Ra
Metacerium – Unknown
Metargon – Ar
Moldavium – Fr
Monium – Y
Mosandium – Unknown
Mosandrum – Sm Tb
Moseleyum – Tc
Moskovium (proposed) – Uuo
Muriaticum – Cl
Muride – Br
Nebulium – O
Neo-erbium – Er
Neokosmium (Nk) – Unknown
Neothulium – Y
Neoytterbium (Ny) – Yb
Neptunium – <1877>Nb – <1886> Ge
Newium – Cf
Newtonium (Nw) – Ho
Nielsbohrium (Ns) – Db Bh
Nigrium – Hf
Nipponium – Tc Re
Niton (Ni) or (Nt) – Rn
Nonactinium – Cf
Norium (No) – Hf
Norwegium (Ng) – Hf and Y
Novum – Ne Rh
Ochroite – Ce
Odinium (Od) – Sm
Offium – Cf
Orthohelium – He
Ostranium – Hf
Panchromium – V
Panormium – Tc
Parahelium – He
Pelopium (Pe) – Nb
Percentium – Md
Philippium (Pp) – Sm Ho
Phtor – F
Pluranium – See Ru
Plutonium – Ba
Polinium – See Ru
Potassium – K
Praedicium – Cf
Prodaniukium – Element 120
Protofluorine – O
Protohydrogen – He
Ptene – Os
Radioactinium – Ac
Radiobismuth – Po
Radiolead – Pb
Radiotellurium – Po
Radium-A to G – Ra (table)
Radium Emanation – Rn
Radlabium – Cf
Rikenium (Rk) (proposed) – Uut
Rogerium – Unknown
Rolandium – Element 120
Russium – Y – Fr
Sδ – Sm
Samarium (Sa) – Sm
Scheelium – W
Scotium – Ar
Sequanium (Sq) – Np
Sirium – Cd
Sodium (So) – Na
Spectrium (Sp) – Yb
Thelike – Si
Therine (Θe) – At
Thor(e)on (Tn) – Rn
Thorium (Θ) – Th
Thorium Emanation – Rn
Thulium (Tu or Θu) – Tm
Tritium – H
Tungsten (Tn, Tu) – W
Tyrium (Ty) – Nd
Ultimium – Pu
Universitium – Cf
Uranium-I, II, X, Y, Z – U Table
Vesbium – V
Vestaeium or Vestium – Cd and Y
Vestium – Ru
Victorium – Y
Virginium (Vi, Vm) – Fr
Wasium – See Th [Wasium]
Wasmium – Unknown
Welsium – Y
Wodanium – See Cd
X – Ho Y
Yα – Gd
Yβ – Sm
Yorkium – Cf
Yttrium (Yt) – Y
Zα – Dy
Zβ – Tb
Zδ – Tb (Y)
Zε – Eu)
Zζ – Eu
Δ – see Y
Γ – Tb
Θ – see Y
Σ – Eu
Ω – see Y

Some names of which it is unknown which element is meant

Glaucodymium

Mentioned by Holden (2001) (note).

Idumium

Announced by Websky (note).

Kosmium (Ko) and Neokosmium (Nk)

The discovery of new elements had become in the 1880s quite a mass phenomenon. A certain Kosmann, hardly known to the scientific world, reported in 1896 in a chemical journal that he had succeeded in detecting two new elements at once. And he gave them the pompous names of Kosmium and Neokosmium (note). The names of course more derived from Kosmann than from Cosmos! It soon became apparent that the "discoverer" of kosmium and neokosmium had just been making fun of this discovery epidemic. The article was a kind of April-Fool joke. (note1) (note2).

Metacerium

Announced by M. Brauner (note).

Mosandium

Discovered ca. 1878 by Prof. Lawrence Smith, of Louisville, Ky., and named after the Swedish chemist, Mosander Mentioned by Holden (2001) (note).

Neokosmium (Nk)

See Kosmium.

Rogerium

Mentioned by Holden (2001) (note).

Wasmium

Mentioned by Holden (2001) (note).