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Magnesium

2 stages from Greek to English.

Today it means a light, silvery-white reactive metallic element
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Magnesia
Greek · ancient
"a region of Greece"
a district in Greece where a distinctive white mineral was found
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magnesium
English · 1808
"a light, silvery-white reactive metal"
coined by chemist Humphry Davy for the metal isolated from the Magnesian mineral
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