uranium的词源

英文词源

uranium

uranium: [18] Ouranós was an ancient sky god in Greek mythology, consort of Gaea and father of Cronos and the Titans (his name was a personification of Greek ouranós ‘heaven’). The Romans called him ūranus, and the name soon came to be applied to the seventh planet from the sun after it was discovered in 1781. (Its discoverer, the German-born British astronomer Sir William Herschel, originally named it Georgium sidus ‘Georgian planet’, as an obsequious compliment to King George III, and others suggested that it should be called Herschel after the man who found it, but in the end the customary practice of naming after a classical deity prevailed.) The term uranium was derived from the planet’s name in 1789 by the German chemist Martin Klaproth, and is first recorded in English in 1797.

uranium (n.)

rare metallic element, 1797, named 1789 in Modern Latin by its discoverer, German chemist and mineralogist Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743-1817), for the recently found planet Uranus (q.v.) + element ending -ium.

中文词源

uranium：铀

来自1789年，其发现者德国化学家和矿物学家Martin Heinrich Klaproth以当时新发现的行星Uranus为这种金属元素命名。比较cerium, 来自谷物女神Ceres.

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uranium：铀

“铀”是一种放射性金属元素，化学符号为U，主要用来产生原子能。著名的物理学家居里夫人曾用铀作实验，发现了放射现象。

Uranium这个词是从希腊神话中一位神的名字来的。1781年，英籍德国天文学家赫瑟尔（Sir William Herschel）发现了颗尚未被人们发现的行星，于是他就借用了希腊神话中“天王”Ouranos的名字，命名这颗行星为Uranus.即“天王星”。8年后，德国化学家Kloproth发现了第92种元素。为了纪念赫瑟尔和他的行星，他命名这种元素为uranium，我们简译成“铀”。