Elemental naming

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* Lithium - Greek ''lithos'', "stone" (Arfvedson, 1817)

* Beryllium - Greek ''beryllos'' named its ore, "beryl" (Vauquelin, 1798)

* 31 - Gallium (Ga) - from Latin Gallia meaning France (but see "Le coq" story)

** Predicted by Mendeleev in 1871 as eka-aluminum

** Discovered by Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran in 1875 via sphalerite spectrometry

* 85 - Astatine (At) - astatos (ἄστατος), "unstable"

** Rarest natural element in the Earth's crust

* 87 - Francium (Fr) - from France (Marguerite Perey at Curie Institue)

** Last element discovered in nature before synthesized

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 * Lithium - Greek ''lithos'', "stone" (Arfvedson, 1817)
 * Beryllium - Greek ''beryllos'' named its ore, "beryl" (Vauquelin, 1798)
+* 31 - Gallium (Ga) - from Latin Gallia meaning France (but see "Le coq" story)
+** Predicted by Mendeleev in 1871 as eka-aluminum
+** Discovered by Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran in 1875 via sphalerite spectrometry
+* 85 - Astatine (At) - astatos (ἄστατος), "unstable"
+** Rarest natural element in the Earth's crust
+* 87 - Francium (Fr) - from France (Marguerite Perey at Curie Institue)
+** Last element discovered in nature before synthesized