Naming of Elements
Across
- 7. Named after the village of around 350 inhabitants in the Ardnamurchan area of Scotland where a mineral containing this element was discovered in the 1790s (9)
- 8. One of two elements named after an ice giant planet (9)
- 10. Named after a scientist who "unjustly" did not share the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for nuclear fission with her long-time collaborator Otto Hahn (10)
- 11. One of two elements named for the country of France (8)
- 12. Named in honour of one of the most famous scientists of all time for his work on theoretical physics (11)
- 13. Named after a continent (8)
Down
- 1. Named after the Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe with the Sun rather than Earth at its centre (11)
- 2. One of two elements named for the country of France (7)
- 3. Named from the Latin for a region of northern Europe (8)
- 4. Named after a god in classical mythology who stole the fire of heaven and gave it to mankind; see also an installment in the Alien film franchise (10)
- 5. From the Greek for "Moon" and also the Greek moon-goddess (8)
- 6. Named after the Greek mythological sun-god as it was first identified by its characteristic emission lines in the Sun's spectrum (6)
- 9. From the Spanish for "little silver" because it was first encountered in a silver mine (8)
- 14. One of two elements named after an ice giant planet (7)