Origin of the Terms Pnictogen and Pnictide

• Autores: Gregory S. Girolami
• Localización: Journal of chemical education, ISSN 0021-9584, Vol. 86, Nº 10 (October), 2009, págs. 1200-1201
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The origin and etymology of the terms pnictogen (also spelled pnigogen or pnicogen) and pnictide are traced to a suggestion of Dutch chemist Anton Eduard van Arkel (1893–1976) in the early 1950s. The words are derived from the Greek root pnikta, “suffocated things”, in allusion to the German name for nitrogen, Stickstoff, or “suffocating substance”. The terms thus mean, loosely, “suffocator maker”.