Pnictogen
A pnictogen (also spelled pnicogen) is an element from group 15 of the periodic table, that is, one of nitrogen, phosphorus, arsenic, antimony or bismuth.[1] The name was first used in 1950s by Dutch chemist Anton Eduard van Arkel (1893–1976), and is derived from the Ancient Greek πνίγειν (pnigein, "to choke, to stifle") and -γενής (genēs, "producer of").[2]
References
- ↑ Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry; IUPAC Recommendations 2005; Royal Society of Chemistry: Cambridge, 2005; pp 51–52. ISBN 0-85404-438-8, <http://www.iupac.org/publications/books/rbook/Red_Book_2005.pdf>.
- ↑ Girolami, Gregory S. Origin of the Terms Pnictogen and Pnictide. J. Chem. Educ. 2009, 86 (10), 1200. DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1200.
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- "Nit-pnicking - I say pnicogen, you say pnictogen", by David Bradley
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