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* Lithium - Greek ''lithos'', "stone" (Arfvedson, 1817) | * Lithium - Greek ''lithos'', "stone" (Arfvedson, 1817) | ||
* Beryllium - Greek ''beryllos'' named its ore, "beryl" (Vauquelin, 1798) | * 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 | |||