Elementry

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Across
  1. 2. the Greek 'helios' meaning sun
  2. 5. the Latin 'calx' meaning lime
  3. 7. the Anglo-Saxon name iren (ferrum in Latin)
  4. 9. the Latin 'carbo', meaning charcoal
  5. 11. the shortened of the German 'kupfernickel' meaning either devil's copper or St. Nicholas's copper
  6. 12. the English word potash
  7. 13. the Old English name coper in turn derived from the Latin 'Cyprium aes', meaning a metal from Cyprus
  8. 15. Scandinavia
  9. 17. the Greek name for beryl
  10. 18. Either the Latin 'magnes', meaning magnet or from the black magnesium oxide, 'magnesia nigra'
  11. 20. the Greek 'hydro' and 'genes' meaning water-forming
  12. 21. the English word soda
  13. 22. the Latin 'fluere', meaning to flow
  14. 23. the Greek, 'argos', meaning idle
  15. 24. the Greek 'chloros', meaning greenish yellow
  16. 26. Vanadis, an old Norse name for the Scandinavian goddess Freyja
  17. 27. the Greek 'lithos' meaning stone
Down
  1. 1. Either from the Sanskrit 'sulvere', or the Latin 'sulfurium', both names for sulfur
  2. 3. the Greek 'neos', meaning new
  3. 4. has an atomic weight of 5
  4. 5. the Greek 'chroma', meaning colour
  5. 6. the German word 'kobald', meaning goblin
  6. 8. the Latin name for alum, 'alumen' meaning bitter salt
  7. 10. the Greek 'oxy' and 'genes' meaning acid-forming
  8. 12. the Greek 'phosphoros', meaning bringer of light
  9. 14. the Latin 'silex' or 'silicis', meaning flint
  10. 16. Titans, the sons of the Earth goddess of Greek mythology
  11. 18. Magnesia, a district of Eastern Thessaly in Greece
  12. 19. the Greek 'nitron' and 'genes' meaning nitre-forming
  13. 25. the German, 'zinc', which may in turn be derived from the Persian word 'sing', meaning stone