Uranium
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late 18th century: modern Latin, from Uranus: compare with tellurium.
wiktionary
After Uranus (the planet), + -ium.
etymonline
uranium (n.)
rare metallic element, 1797, named 1789 in Modern Latin by its discoverer, German chemist and mineralogist Martin Heinrich Klaproth, for the recently found planet Uranus (q.v.).