Etymology

oganesson

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Today it means: The chemical element (symbol Og) with atomic number 118. It is the heaviest known element. Highly radioactive, it does not occur naturally. Originally expected to be a noble gas, it is now predicted to be a reactive metallic solid, and a semiconductor or a post-transition metal. Full definition →

English carbonbf. ← French carbone ← Latin carbōnem
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The story

  1. Biblical Hebrewיהוה (YHWH)
  2. Biblical Hebrewיְהוֹ־ (yəhō-)
  3. Biblical Hebrewחַנּוּן (ḥannūn)
  4. Biblical Hebrewיוֹחָנָן (yōḥɔnɔn)
  5. Ancient GreekἸωάννης (Iōánnēs)
  6. ArmenianՀովհաննես (Hovhannes)
  7. ArmenianՀովհաննիսյան (Hovhannisyan)
  8. RussianОганеся́н (Oganesján)
  9. EnglishOganessian
  10. Proto-Indo-European*kerh₃-der.?
  11. Latincarbōnem
  12. Frenchcarbone
  13. Englishcarbonbf.
  14. English todayoganesson

From Oganessian + -on. Promulgated in June 2016 by IUPAC based on recommendations of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to honor Russian-Armenian physicist Yuri Oganessian (born 1933) who researched superheavy elements. Suffix -on, rather than -ium, is because it is a noble gas (like neon or argon).

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