Lighter side of Metals

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Across
  1. 7. named in honor of Ernest Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, a device that was used to discover many artificial radioactive elements
  2. 8. named after Greek god of the sky
  3. 11. Named after the dwarf planet Ceres (itself named after the Roman goddess of agriculture). It is also used in the "flint" (actually ferrocerium) of lighters.
  4. 12. named after a Russian mine official, Colonel Vasili Samarsky-Bykhovets, who thereby became the first person to have a chemical element named after him
  5. 13. Named after one of the greatest physicist
  6. 14. named after Ytterby, the village in Sweden
  7. 16. is used as a component in the alloys used to make high-strength powerful permanent magnets
  8. 19. derived from the name of Titan in Greek mythology who stole fire from Mount Olympus and brought it down to humans
  9. 21. Named after the inventor of dynamite
  10. 22. also known as wolfram
  11. 23. named after Nobel laureates
  12. 24. Named after Thor, the Norse god of thunder
Down
  1. 1. named after the Americas
  2. 2. It is named after the city of Berkeley, California
  3. 3. Named in honour of Nicolaus Copernicus, who postulated the heliocentric theory that the Earth orbits around the Sun, contradicting prior belief.
  4. 4. the element was named after the city of Stockholm
  5. 5. named after the German state of Hesse
  6. 6. This element was named unnilhexium before stable synthesis
  7. 9. It is named for gadolinite, one of the minerals in which it was found, in turn named for chemist Johan Gadolin.
  8. 10. The element was named after the university and the state of California. It is the heaviest element to occur naturally on Earth
  9. 15. Named after a continent
  10. 17. named after Danish physicist Niels Bohr. It is a synthetic element
  11. 18. named after the planet
  12. 20. It was discovered in the debris of the first hydrogen bomb explosion in 1952, and named after Enrico Fermi