But there's at least one substance in the periodic table that was named in response to a nearby element, and that's americium, the element that looks as if it should be pronounced [AMER-ICK-IUM]. It ...

The periodic table included promethium and three newly discovered elements heavier than uranium - americium, curium and plutonium. Promethium, which has the symbol Pm, was the last rare-earth ...

Can France claim the first periodic table? Probably not, but a French Geology Professor made a significant advance towards it, even though at the time few people were aware of it. Alexandre Béguyer de ...