Comments by "Andi Arbeit" (@Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage) on "The weird ways the elements got their names" video.

  1. 15:07 Wolfs Cream. OMG It's not forbitten to read the ethymology of this word. 10 seconds in wikipedia. Middle High German rām also means "soot and dirt. "The part of the name Wolf- comes from this property, as the mineral “eaten” the tin ore like a wolf. Whether this is wolframite is still controversial today, as Agricola spoke of the “lightness” of the mineral. He called the mineral lupi spuma, which translated from Latin means something like “wolf foam”. It was later called tungsten, from Middle High German rām “soot, cream, dirt”, because the black-grey mineral can be ground up very easily and is then reminiscent of soot."
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