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The following is an alphabetical list of accepted and alternative names for certain elements. For more information see the General Information Screen.
   Antimony   Mercury     Unnilhexium
   Argentium   Natrium    Unniloctium
   Aurum        Nielsbohrium*    Unnilpentium
   Bohrium*   Niobium    Unnilquadium
   
Columbium   Plumbum    Unnilseptium
   Dubnium*   Potassium     Ununbium
   Ferrum    Rutherfordium* Ununhexium
   Gold       Seaborgium*     Ununnilium
   Hassium*   Silver     Ununoctium
   Hydrargium   Sodium       Ununpentium
   Joliotium *    Stannum     Ununquadium
   Kalium    Stibium     Ununseptium
   Kurchatovium    Tin        Ununtrium
   Lead       Tungsten    Unununium
   Meitnerium *   Unnilennium     Wolfram
* The element names marked with an asterisk were involved in the naming controversy highlighted by the October, 1994 re-alignment of names for elements 104 - 108 by the IUPAC naming commission. Those name beginning Unnil or Unun are
structural names.