Editing Boron group (section)

===Etymology===
The name "boron" comes from the Arabic word for the mineral borax, (بورق, ''boraq'') which was known before boron was ever extracted. The "-on" suffix is thought to have been taken from "carbon".<ref>{{Cite book|title=Word-Building Strategies in Modern English|last=Lavrova|first=Natalie|page=95|year=2010 |isbn=978-3-640-53719-8|location=Germany |publisher=GRIN Verlag |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uy0uwU6n84wC&pg=PA95}}</ref> Aluminium was named by Humphry Davy in the early 1800s. It is derived from the Greek word ''alumen'', meaning bitter salt, or the Latin ''[[alum]]'', the mineral.<ref>{{Cite book|title=History and perspectives of language study|author=Bugarski, Ranko|editor=Tomić, Olga Mišeska|editor2=Milorad, Radovanović|page=211|year=2000 |isbn=90-272-3692-5|location=Amsterdam, the Netherlands |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Co. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B9clK7Jb6woC&pg=PA211}}</ref> Gallium is derived from the Latin ''Gallia'', referring to France, the place of its discovery.<ref name="Weeks">{{Cite journal|title = The discovery of the elements. XIII. Some elements predicted by Mendeleeff |pages = 1605–1619|last = Weeks|first =  Mary Elvira |author-link=Mary Elvira Weeks|doi=10.1021/ed009p1605|journal = [[Journal of Chemical Education]] |volume =9 |issue =9 |year = 1932|bibcode = 1932JChEd...9.1605W }}</ref> Indium comes from the Latin word ''indicum'', meaning [[indigo dye]], and refers to the element's prominent indigo spectroscopic line.<ref>{{cite journal|title = Indium|last = Venetskii|first = S.|journal = Metallurgist|volume = 15|issue = 2|pages = 148–150|year = 1971|doi = 10.1007/BF01088126}}</ref> Thallium, like indium, is named after the Greek word for the color of its spectroscopic line: {{transliteration|grc|thallos}}, meaning a green twig or shoot.<ref>{{OEtymD|thallium}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal| doi = 10.1021/ed009p2078| title = The discovery of the elements. XIII. Supplementary note on the discovery of thallium| year = 1932| last1 = Weeks| first1 = Mary Elvira|author-link1=Mary Elvira Weeks| journal = Journal of Chemical Education| volume = 9| issue = 12| pages = 2078|bibcode = 1932JChEd...9.2078W }}</ref> "Nihonium" is named after [[Japan]] (''Nihon'' in Japanese), where it was discovered.