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ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- 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.).
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- Uranus
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first planet discovered that was not known in ancient times, named
for the god of Heaven, husband of Gaia, the Earth, from L. Uranus,
from Gk. Ouranos lit. "heaven," in Greek cosmology, the
god who personifies the heavens, father of the titans. Cf. Urania,
name of the Muse of astronomy, from Gk. Ourania, fem. of ouranios,
lit. "heavenly."
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