History: Discovered in 1925, rhenium was the last stable element to be discovered. It was named after the river Rhine in Europe.
History: Discovered in 1803 among insoluble impurities in natural platinum by Smithson Tennant, named the iridium after goddess Iris.
History: Discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston in an ore of platinum/nickel, named for the rose color of one of its chlorine compounds.
History: Discovered in 1844 by Russian scientist, Karl Ernst Claus, named it after Ruthenia,Latin word for Rus(ancient Russia).
History: Discovered in Transylvania(part of Romania) in 1782 by Franz-Joseph Miller von Reichenstein in a mineral, containing tellurium and gold.
History: Osmium (from Greek-osme meaning (smell) was discovered in 1803 by Smithson Tennant and William Hyde Wollaston in London, England.
History: Gold has been a valuable and highly precious metal for coinage, jewellery, and other arts since beginning of recorded history.
History: Its name is derived from the Spanish term platina, which is literally translated into little silver.
History: Bismuth metal has been known from ancient times, but its name possibly comes from Arabic - bi ismid, meaning having the properties of antimony.
History: It is a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston, named after the asteroid Pallas.
History: Known since ancient times. Latin for silver, argentum, from the Indo-European root *arg- meaning white or shining.
History: Mercury was found in Egyptian tombs that date from 1500 BC.
History: Discovered in 1863 by German chemists Ferdinand Reich and Hieronymous Theodor Richter, while doing spectroscopy and named it with the blue spectral line indium.
History: Discovered in 1886 by Clemens Winkler, in a rare mineral called argyrodite and named the element after his country, Germany.