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IIRC the -ium ending denotes a place of origin. I.e Magnesium was first find in Magnesia. Now, the Brits thought the -ium ending sounded posher, so they called it aluminium ... but Alumnia isn't a place, so they're wrong.
Mendelevium? Ruthorfordium? Uranium? Plutonium?
We performed an autopsy on mendelev and found a new element in there
They discovered those inside Mendel and Rutherford. ... And there's reason Uranium and Plutonium weren't discovered until Bruce Willis went to space.
You know what, it's something I heard once, but doing some research it doesn't really hold water.