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National commemoratives include Americium, Germanium, Polonium and Francium; ancient France likewise gets a nod in Gallium (Ga), the only metal that melts in your hand, not in your chamber (unless you have a very warm room)—named both for Gaul (Latin Gallia, that place which, thanks to Julius Caesar's memoir of its subjugation by the Romans, every schoolchild used to know was divided into three parts) and, in a gesture of unusual levity, as a pun on the name of its discoverer, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran.
As gallium is the only other metal, besides mercury, which is liquid at room temperature and since liquid metals have a slightly shady reputation, perhaps Lecoq's trick was poetically apt.
The 19th-century French chemist Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran managed to name Gallium after himself (because, of course, Coq in Latin is Gallus !).
In 1886 the aforesaid Lecoq de Boisbaudran (who had already discovered gallium in 1875) isolated dysprosium (Greek for difficult to reach).
The name of gallium is not only a pun on the name of its discoverer, Lecoq de Boisbaudran, but a patriotic tribute to his native country—Latin Gallia , Gaul, France.