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What element has the longest name?

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The element with the longest name is rutherfordium.

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The prize for the longest element name goes to rutherfordium, named after the famous New Zealand physicist Lord Ernest Rutherford who won a Nobel Prize in chemistry. Praseodymium means 'green twin', a name that relates to confusion over the supposed element didymium.

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