Difference between revisions of "Pnictogen"

From WikiChem
Jump to: navigation, search
(External links)
Line 7: Line 7:
 
==External links==
 
==External links==
 
{{wikipedia|Nitrogen group}}
 
{{wikipedia|Nitrogen group}}
 +
*"[http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/pnictogen/pnictogenh.htm Nit-pnicking - I say pnicogen, you say pnictogen]", by David Bradley
  
 
[[Category:Pnictogens| ]]
 
[[Category:Pnictogens| ]]

Revision as of 11:51, 24 December 2010

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

  1. 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>.
  2. Girolami, Gregory S. Origin of the Terms Pnictogen and Pnictide. J. Chem. Educ. 2009, 86 (10), 1200. DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1200.

External links

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination
This page is currently licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license and any later versions of that license.