Update to Sanskrit Chemistry


When I first started this, I thought I was the first to coin science terms in Sanskrit. Well, the first to do it systematically as there were already coined words on the SpokenSanskrit dictionary.  It turns out that they come from a famous modern Sanskrit scholar Dr. Raghu Vira. 

Dr. Raghu Vira has done extensive on coining technical terms in Sanskrit, many of which I have unknowlingly used or derived from. For example, the suffixes I gave for "ite", "ate", "ide" before were of his work, though at the time I didn't know that, I simply thought theyy were SpokeSanskrit's own coinings. 

I do differ from him on some things though, such as shying away from using abbreviative suffixes. However, his basic word choice behind a chemistry term is something I will keep. One such is the word for Oxygen, which I rendered as प्राणजन (प्राण्य​-) as it is conducive to respiration and life. However, Raghu Vira gave a more tenchant word that can be better made into prefixes. That is जारकम्. I can use जार​- as a shorthand form. Thus Ketone can be जारकण्ठक​. I will not use his abbreviation system as they can get clunky, especually for organic chemistry, in which I prefer my descriptive system of "twis, branches, thorns, and rings". For now, I will use both. 

Another difference is that he uses अणु for naming electrons and alike, and I prefer कण​ or particle, as the former has a connotation for atoms and molecules, where as the latter is more general. So विद्युत्कण and not विद्युदणु. 

I shall now finetune the names for the chemical elements with Raghu Vira's work in mind, but again shying away from abbreviated suffixes. For metals, I will just use the suffix आयस्. Names inspired by Raghu Vira will be having an atserisk. 

Group 1:

Hydrogen: *उद्रजन ("water making")

Lithium: लघ्वयस्* ("lightest metal")

Sodium: सैन्धवायस् ("metal from salt") or स्वर्ज्यायस् ("metal from natron")

Pottasium: यवक्षारायस् or सोरायस् (both "metal of salt-petre")

Rhubidium: अरुणायस् /रक्तदीपायस्* g("Red Light metal", अरुण is god of dawn, which has red light)

Cesium:  विद्यद्दायस्* (Giver of electricity, as it is electropositive) 

Francium: फैरङ्ग्यायस् ("metal of France")

Group 2:

Beryllium: विडूर्यायस् (विडूर is existing neologism, backformation of वैडूर्य (beryll))

Magnesium: भ्राजोयस्* ("metal of glittering")

Calcium: खट्ययस् ("chalk metal")

Strontium: शोणाग्न्ययस्* ("red flame metal"; शोणायस् could be a short hand)

Barium: *हरिज्वालायस्* ("green flame metal")

Radium: हरितेजोयस्* ("metal of green radiation"; I included the "green" part)

Group 3:

Boron: टाङ्कनायस्* ("metal from Borax")

Aluminium: तुवरिकायस् ("metal from alum"), स्फट्ययस्* ("metal of alum")

Gallium: द्रवायस्* ("oozing metal", as Gallium can be liquid at room temperature)

Indium: नीलभायस् ("metal of blue shine")

Thallium: हरिभायस् ("metal of green shine")


Group 4:

Carbon: *अङ्गार ("coal")

Silicon: *सैकतायस् ("metal of sand")

Germanium: जर्मन्यायस् ("metal of Germany", need to coin word for "Germany")

Tin: *त्रपुस् ("tin")

Lead: *नाग or *सीस​  (both "lead")

Group 5:

Nitrogen: सोरजन ("salt-petre generating")

Phosphorous: *भास्वर ("shining")

Arsenic: नैपालीज​ ("born from Red Arsenic (Realgar)")

Antimony: *अञ्जन ("black antomony", according to wisdomlibrary)

Bismuth: *चपल?? (Not sure, maybe Sellinium?)

Group 6:

Oxygen: प्राणजन ("life producing") or जारकम्*("ruster").

Sulfur: *गन्धक ("sulfur")​

Selenium: मेचाग्न्ययस्/मेचज्वालायस्* ("blue flame metal")

Tellurium: क्षासहित ("with the earth")

Group 7:

Flourine: वैक्रान्तजन​ ("producing flourite")

Chlorine: हरित​क​ ("green")

Bromine: कपिलपूत ("brown and stinky"), दुर्घ्राणक​ ("bad smell"; inspired from Raghu Vira)

Iodine: धूम्रक​ ("purple")

Group 8:

Helium: सौर्यक ("of the sun")

Neon: शितिरक​* ("inert gas"; all noble gases are inert, but I just followed Raghu Vira)

Argon: जडक ("innert"; Raghu Vira uses "मन्द​")
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Krypton: निगूढक​ ("hidden";)

Xenon: विलक्षक​ ("strange")

Radon: हरिरश्म्यायोज ("born from Radium")

Some Transition Metals (Some names already exist in Sanskrit):

Iron: *लोह

Copper: *ताम्र

Gold: *स्वर्ण​

Silver: *रजत​

Zinc: *जसद (meaning assessed from Hindi)

Chromium: वर्णायस्*

Vanadium:वनादिसायस् (metal of Freya (Vanadis)) or रोचायस्* (shining metal)

Tungsten: चण्डायस्* ("fierce metal", as it has the highest melting point)

Ruthenium: दुर्लीनायस् ("hard to dissolve metal", as it can be dissolved by the most strongest of acids. Raghu Vira used "न क्षर​" ["not dissolving"], but I diverged abit).

Platinum: महायस* ("great metal", as Platinum is vital and more valued than gold)

Osmium: गुर्वयस्* ("heavy metal", as it is the most heaviest of stable metals")

Iridium: घनायस्* {"compact metal"; second heaviest metal)

Cobalt: उल्कायस्  ("meteor metal"; Raghu Vira uses "केतु")

Technetium: कल्पितायस् ("invented metal"; artificially made, not naturally occuring, lightest radioactive metal)

Palladium: उदक्य​पायस् ("hydrogen drinking metal"; as this metal can absorb alot of H2)

Cadmium: मृज्यायस्* ("polishable metal"; this metal has highly polishable)

Dysprosium: लोहकामा​यस् ("iron loving metal"; very ferromagnetic, Raghu Vira uses चुम्बक​)

Samarium: धूसरायस्* ("grey metal")

Heavy Radioactive metals:

Actinium: एजदयस्* (""active metal" or "shining metal")

Uranium: किरणायस्* ("ray metal"; refering to radioactivty) / वरुणायस् ("Varuna's metal"; naming it after a god with a similar sounding name.)

Thorium: ह्रासतेजोयस्/ह्रासायस्* ("deminishing metal", refering to hw it decays into alpha and beta particles) or तोरायस् ("Thor's metal"; yes I loaned the name "Thor" into Sanskrit)

Europium: किम्विरलायस्* ("what rare metal?"; little is known about Europium)




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