Man gave names to all the elements
Hydrogen - from the Greek for water forming. Helium - from the Greek helios , the sun, where it was first detected spectroscopically. Lithium - from the Greek lithos , a stone Beryllium - from the Greek beryllo , which was their name for the mineral beryl. Boron - a combination of borax+carbon. Humphry Davy coined the name; the element came from the mineral borax and shared some properties of carbon. Carbon - from the Latin carbo for charcoal. Nitrogen - nitre forming. Nitre is an old name for potassium nitrate. Nitrogen was once called choke-damp in England. Oxygen - from the Greek for acid forming. Fluorine - from the Latin fluere to flow, after the tendency of the mineral fluorspar to melt in a flame. Neon - from the Greek neos new. Sodium - devised by its discoverer, Humpry Davy, from soda (sodium carbonate) which was named after the Latin sodanum , meaning headache remedy. The symbol Na comes from natrum , Latin for soda. Magnesium - named after Magnesia, a region of Greec...