在欧洲,到十九世纪初,随着越来越多的化学元素的发现和各国间科学文化交流的日益扩大,化学家们开始意识到有必要统一化学元素的命名。瑞典化学家贝齐里乌斯首先提出,用欧洲各国通用的拉丁文来统一命名元素,从此改变了元素命名上的混乱状况。化学元素的拉丁文名称,在命名时都有一定的含义。或是为了纪念发现的地点、发现者的祖国,或是为了纪念某科学家,或是借用星宿名和神名,或是为了表示这一元素的某一特性。在把这些拉丁 In Europe, by the beginning of the nineteenth century, as more and more chemical elements were discovered and scientific and cultural exchanges among nations were expanding, chemists began to realize the need to unify the naming of chemical elements. Bezillius, a Swedish chemist, first proposed that the unification of naming elements should be done with the common Latin in various European countries, thus changing the confusion over the naming of elements. Latin names of chemical elements, have a certain meaning in the name. Either for the purpose of commemorating the place of discovery, the country of the discoverer, or for the purpose of commemorating a scientist, or borrowing from the name of the star and the name of the god, or to indicate a certain characteristic of this element. Put these in Latin