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Barium

2 stages from Greek to English.

Today it means a soft, silvery-white reactive metallic element
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Stage 1 of 2
barys
Greek · ancient
"heavy"
heavy, describing the notably dense mineral from which the element was isolated
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barium
English · 1808
"a dense, reactive silvery-white metal"
coined by chemist Humphry Davy for the newly isolated dense metal
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