How the chemical elements got their names

150 years ago a Russian chemist names Dimitri Mendeleev formulated a table of chemical elements. At the time he knew of just 63. Since then the table has grown to include 118 element. But have you ever wondered how those elements got their names?

These days the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)have a set of rules which stipulate that “elements are named after a mythological concept or character (including an astronomical object); a mineral, or similar substance; a place or geographical region; a property of the element; or a…