Names Greek origin

Neodymium - the atomic number is 60 and the chemical symbol is Nd. The name was originally neodidymium and was later shortened to neodymium, which is derived from the Greek neos for new and didymos for twin . It was discovered by the Swedish surgeon and chemist Carl Gustav Mosander in 1841, who called it didymium (or twin) because of its similarity to lanthanium which he had previously discovered two years earlier. In 1885, the Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach separated didymium into two elements. One of which he called neodymium (or new twin). 

The term phthalocyanine was first used by R. P. Linstead in 1933 [1] to describe a class of organic dyes, whose colors range from reddish blue to yellowish green. The name phthalocyanine originates from the Greek terms naphtha for mineral oil and cyanine for dark blue. In 1930-1940, Linstead et al. elucidated the structure of phthalocyanine (H2Pc) and its metal complexes [1-11]. The basic structure is represented by phthalocyanine (1) itself ... 

An herbal plant, a part of vhich is also considered as a spice, is the last subject to be described. This plant is coricinder, Coriandrum sativum. Evai though the name, "coriander" originates from the Greek "koriannon" meaning "bug", a reference... 

Polymers form straight and partly even branched chains. At first, they soften (plastically) under heat supply and liquefy at rising temperature. After cooling down they solidify again. This property led to the name thermoplastics (also of Greek origin thermos = warm), that is, substances that soften or plasticize under heat. Typical examples are the hot-melt adhesives described in Section 5.1. 

The cell nucleus was named after the pit or the kernel of fruit because like that structure the nucleus often appears as a well-delimited, round mass in the middle of the cell (see Fig. 2-1). It forms a central core, denser and more coarsely granular than the surrounding cytoplasm. The Greek word for nucleus is xolqvov, and such terms as karyokinesis, karyolysis, and karyor-rhexis have a Greek origin. 

Artificially prepared vesicles made of amphiphilic molecules are named liposomes (originated from the Greek words Upos fat, and soma body), and were discovered in 1961 by Alec D. Bangham. They differ from micelles because of their bounded bilayer architecture, which determines an inside and an outside aqueous domain with, under osmotically balanced conditions, a spherical shape. The nature of the bilayer is often composed of pure or mixed naturally derived phospholipids (e.g., phosphatidyl choline). 

A The name bromine originates from the Greek word bromos, meaning "stench." Bromine vapor, seen as the red-brown gas in this photograph, has a strong odor. 

These three names have the same Greek origin, lithos, which means stone. 

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