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iridium
1804, Modern Latin, coined by its discoverer, English chemist Smithson Tennant (1761-1815) from Greek
iris
(genitive
iridos
) "rainbow;" so called for "the striking variety of colours which it gives while dissolving in marine acid" [Tennant]
