I enjoy etymology (in general) of the elements so I learned a bit as well as confirmed what I've assumed.
Uranium from Uranus
Plutonium from Pluto
Neptunium from Neptune
what is the reason?
Uranium"Word History: Some chemical elements, such as ytterbium and berkelium, derive their names from the places they were discovered, but the element uranium owes its name to an earlier scientific discovery, that of the planet Uranus. [...] The name of this new planet Uranus was then used in the name of a new chemical element discovered eight years later by M.H. Klaproth.
Klaproth, a German scientist, gave it the Latin name uranium in honor of the discovery of Uranus. Uranium passed into English shortly thereafter, being first recorded in the third edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, published in 1797."
1"named 1789 in Mod.L. by its discoverer, Ger. chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743-1817), for the recently found planet Uranus"
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TheFreeDictionary: UraniumSource
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Etymonline: UraniumNeptunium"After the planet Neptune (from the fact that it follows uranium in the periodic table)."
1"The
first element following Uranium is named after the
first planet after Uranus: Neptune."
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TheFreeDictionary: NeptuniumSource
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NeptuniumPlutonium"After the dwarf planet Pluto (from the fact that it follows neptunium in the periodic table)."
1"The second element following Uranium is named after the second planet after Uranus: Pluto"
2"the element named on
suggestion of Seaborg and Wahl because it follows neptunium in the periodic table as
Pluto follows Neptune in the Solar System."
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TheFreeDictionary: PlutoniumSource
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PlutoniumSource
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Etymonline: Plutonium
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