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Denim derives its name from 'serge de Nîmes,' a fabric from Nîmes, France, while 'jeans' comes from 'Gênes,' the French word for Genoa, Italy, where similar cotton corduroy was produced in the 16th century.
Over 40% of gemstone names originate from Sanskrit, including diamond (from 'vajra' meaning thunderbolt), sapphire (from 'sanipriya' meaning dear to Saturn), and ruby (ultimately from 'ratnaraj' meaning king of gems).
Bakelite, the first fully synthetic plastic created in 1907, was named after its inventor Leo Baekeland, establishing a trend where over 60% of early plastics were named after their creators rather than their properties.
The material 'vermillion' gets its name from the Latin 'vermiculus' meaning 'little worm,' because the brilliant red pigment was originally extracted from the crushed bodies of kermes insects in the Middle Ages.
The Bronze Age (3300-1200 BCE) was named by archaeologist Christian Jürgensen Thomsen in 1836, more than 3,000 years after the period ended, creating the first material-based classification system for human prehistory.
At least 200 fabric names are derived from their places of origin, including muslin (Mosul, Iraq), calico (Calicut, India), and damask (Damascus, Syria), mapping a 2,000-year history of global textile trade routes.
23 chemical elements are named after places, including gallium (France), germanium (Germany), and americium (America), with polonium named by Marie Curie in 1898 to honor her occupied homeland of Poland.
Roman concrete was called 'opus caementicium' (meaning aggregate work), but modern Portland cement got its name in 1824 because its inventor, Joseph Aspdin, thought it resembled Portland stone from Dorset, England.
The word 'steel' can be traced back over 4,000 years to Proto-Indo-European roots, making it one of the oldest continuously used material names in human language, predating written records by centuries.
The Chinese character for silk (絲) appears in over 230 compound words for different fabric types, reflecting 5,000 years of sericulture and making it the most linguistically productive material name in any language.
The dual spelling of aluminum/aluminium exists because Sir Humphry Davy changed his mind twice between 1807-1812, with the -ium ending (matching other elements) officially adopted by IUPAC but the -um version persisting in American English.
More than 5,800 officially recognized minerals exist, with approximately 15% named after people, including 41 minerals named after mineralogists named 'Smith,' making it the most common surname in mineral nomenclature.
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