köken: Borrowed from Swedish halogen, coined by chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius based on Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls, “salt”), due to the nature of halides, the salt compounds that halogens form with metals. By surface analysis, halo- + -geno.
halogen (any element of group 7 of the periodic table)
çekim: çoğul halogenen
köken: Borrowed from New Latin halogenium, from Swedish halogen, both coined by Jöns Jakob Berzelius, a Swedish chemist. Formed from Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls, “salt”) + -geen (“produce”), referring to elements which produce a salt in union with a metal.