Klaproth confirmed Mueller'mÃ¼ller s. Discovery he suggested the name, tellurium from The latin word, tellus Meaning.. Earth tellurium is often found with another, element. Selenium that element was discovered 30 years later and named in honor of The. moonhe elements that make up Group 16 (VIA) of the periodic table are sometimes called the chalcogens. This name comes from the Greek word for bronze ore, chalkos. The first two elements in the family, oxygen and sulfur, are often found in such ores. Tellurium is the next to last member of that family.
Geranium (noun). a genus of plants having a beaklike tours or receptacle, around which the seed capsules are arranged, and membranous projections, or stipules, at the joints. Most of the species have showy flowers and a pungent odor.
The English name âcranesbillâ derives from the appearance of the fruit capsule of some of the species. Species in the Geranium genus have a distinctive mechanism for seed dispersal.innaeus originally included all the species in one genus, Geranium, but they were later separated into two genera by Charles LâHeritier hÃ©ritier in. 1789 other former members of the genus are now classified in Genus, erodium including the plants known as filarees In North. america