Editing Beryllium (section)

===Etymology===
Beryllium was named for the semiprecious mineral [[beryl]], from which it was first isolated.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/beryllium |title=etymology online |access-date=30 October 2021 |archive-date=30 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030044456/https://www.etymonline.com/word/beryllium |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/science/beryllium |title=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=30 October 2021 |archive-date=23 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023084814/https://www.britannica.com/science/beryllium |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.elementalmatter.info/element-beryllium.htm |title=Elemental Matter |access-date=30 October 2021 |archive-date=29 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129001922/http://www.elementalmatter.info/element-beryllium.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Martin Klaproth, having independently determined that beryl and emerald share an element, preferred the name "beryllina" due to the fact that [[yttria]] also formed sweet salts.<ref>Klaproth, Martin Heinrich, ''Beitrage zur Chemischen Kenntniss der Mineralkörper'' (Contribution to the chemical knowledge of mineral substances), vol. 3, (Berlin, (Germany): Heinrich August Rottmann, 1802), [https://books.google.com/books?id=8A8KAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA78 pages 78–79] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426233710/https://books.google.com/books?id=8A8KAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA78 |date=26 April 2016 }}: "Als Vauquelin der von ihm im Beryll und Smaragd entdeckten neuen Erde, wegen ihrer Eigenschaft, süsse Mittelsalze zu bilden, den Namen ''Glykine'', ''Süsserde'', beilegte, erwartete er wohl nicht, dass sich bald nachher eine anderweitige Erde finden würde, welche mit völlig gleichem Rechte Anspruch an diesen Namen machen können. Um daher keine Verwechselung derselben mit der Yttererde zu veranlassen, würde es vielleicht gerathen seyn, jenen Namen ''Glykine'' aufzugeben, und durch Beryllerde (''Beryllina'') zu ersetzen; welche Namensveränderung auch bereits vom Hrn. Prof. Link, und zwar aus dem Grunde empfohlen worden, weil schon ein Pflanzengeschlecht ''Glycine'' vorhanden ist." (When Vauquelin conferred – on account of its property of forming sweet salts – the name ''glycine'', ''sweet-earth'', on the new earth that had been found by him in beryl and smaragd, he certainly didn't expect that soon thereafter another earth would be found which with fully equal right could claim this name. Therefore, in order to avoid confusion of it with yttria-earth, it would perhaps be advisable to abandon this name ''glycine'' and replace it with beryl-earth (''beryllina''); which name change was also recommended by Prof. Link, and for the reason that a genus of plants, ''Glycine'', already exists.)</ref><ref name=NameGame-2023/>

Although [[Humphry Davy]] failed to isolate it, he proposed the name ''glucium'' for the new metal, derived from the name ''glucina'' for the earth it was found in; altered forms of this name, ''glucinium'' or ''glucinum'' (symbol Gl) continued to be used into the 20th century.<ref>{{Cite web |title=4. Beryllium - Elementymology & Elements Multidict |url=https://elements.vanderkrogt.net/element.php?sym=Be |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=elements.vanderkrogt.net}}</ref>