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Calcium
Calcium – Kalzium – Calcium – Calcio – カルシウム – Кальций – 鈣
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Indo-European
Calcium Latin Germanic
Kalsium AfrikaansCalcium, Kalcium Danish Kalzium German Calcium English Kalsium Faroese Kalsium Frisian (West) Kalsín Icelandic Kalzium Luxembourgish Calcium Dutch Kalsium Norwegian Kalcium Swedish Italic
Calzio AragoneseCaltsiumu Aromanian Calciu Asturian Calci Catalan Calcio Spanish Calcium French Calci Friulian Calcio Galician Calcio Italian Calc Lombard Calci Occitan Cálcio Portuguese Calciu Romanian - Moldovan Slavic
Калций [Kalcij] BulgarianKalcij[um] Bosnian Кальцый [kal'cyj] Belarusian Vápník Czech Kalcij Croatian Kalcéń Kashubian Калциум [Kalcium] Macedonian Wapń Polish Кальций [Kal'cij] Russian Vápník Slovak Kalcij Slovenian Калцијум [Kalcijum] Serbian Кальцій [kal'cij] Ukrainian Baltic
Kalcis LithuanianKalcijs Latvian Kalcis Samogitian Celtic
Kalsiom BretonCalsiwm Welsh Cailciam Gaelic (Irish) Cailciam Gaelic (Scottish) Kelkium Gaelic (Manx) Calcyum Cornish Other Indo-European
Ασβεστιο [asvestio] GreekԿալցիում [kalts'ium] Armenian Kalcium[i] Albanian Indo-Iranian/Iranian
Kalsiyûm KurdishКальций [kal'cij] Ossetian Кальций [Kal'ci'] Tajik Indo-Iranian/Indo-Aryan
ক্যালসিয়াম [kyālasiẏāma] Bengaliکلسیم [klsym] Persian કૅલ્શિયમનો [kelṡiyamano] Gujarati कैल्शियम [kailśiyama] Hindi Finno-Ugric
Kaltsium EstonianKalsium Finnish Kalcium Hungarian Кальций [Kal'cij] Komi Кальций [Kal'cij] Mari Пургев [purgev] Moksha Kaltsium Võro Altaic
Kalsium AzerbaijaniКальци [Kal'ci] Chuvash Кальций [kal'cij] Kazakh Кальций [Kal'cij] Kyrgyz Кальци [kal'ci] Mongolian Kalsiyum Turkish كالتىسىي [kaltisiy] Uyghur Kalsiy Uzbek Other (Europe)
Kaltzioa Basqueკალციუმი [kalc'iumi] Georgian Afro-Asiatic
كلسيوم [kalsiyūm] Arabicסידן [sidan] Hebrew Kalsjum, ²Kalċju Maltese Sino-Tibetan
Koi (鈣) Hakkaカルシウム [karushiumu] Japanese 칼슘 [kalsyum] Korean แคลเซียม [khaelsiam/khaensiam] Thai Canxi Vietnamese 鈣 [gai4 / koi3] Chinese Malayo-Polynesian
Kalsyo CebuanoKalsium Indonesian Konupūmā Māori Kalsium Malay Other Asiatic
കാല്സ്യം [kālsyam] Malayalamகலசியம் [kalciyam] Tamil Africa
Kalisu LingalaKalsiamo Sesotho Kalisi Swahili North-America
Tenextepoztli NahuatlSouth-America
Isku q'illay, ²Kalsyu QuechuaCreole
Kalsimi Sranan TongoArtificial
Kalcio EsperantoNew names
Calcion Atomic ElementsLimestoneium Dorseyville |
History & Etymology
Calcium oxide or lime has been known from a very remote period, and was for a long time considered to be an elementary or undecomposable earth. This view was questioned in the eighteenth century, and in 1808 Sir Humphry Davy was able to show that lime was a combination of a metal and oxygen. In the paper read for the Royal Society of London on 30 June 1808, Davy referred to the new alkaline earth metals in this way (note):
Calcium was named so from its occurrence in limestone (Latin "calx"). The Latin "calx" is used for lime (CaO, quicklime), limestone (CaCO3, calcium carbonate). Originally "calx" was used for every metal oxide (earth), the result of roasting a metal or mineral.
Alternative names
In several other languages the name of the element is derived from the native name for limestone:
Chemistianity 1873
JTYAN
CALCIUM (combined) forms the Frame Metal Of Animals and the Shelly exuviæ From wondrous Coral Zoophytes, and Molusca. Calcium is a light yellow metal, Exposed to Air it rapidly oxides, 'Tis ductile, and mall'able to paper thickness; It burns brilliantly when heated in Oxygen, Chlorine, or the vapour of Bromine or Sulphur. Further reading
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