Sources

Every book, journal and standard that attests a form in the history timelines. The bar shows how many of the forms a source used are still the current character somewhere: the Xú–Fryer characters of 1871 are the durable core, Martin's 1868 glosses almost all died.

• 古名 Pre-modern usage
  Classical texts (Shuōwén Jiězì, Běncǎo Gāngmù)
  7 / 14 forms survive
• 天文略論 Tiānwén Lüèlùn· 1849
  Benjamin Hobson (合信)
  0 / 2 forms survive
• 博物新編 Bówù Xīnbiān· 1855
  Benjamin Hobson (合信)
  0 / 3 forms survive
• 格物入門 Géwù Rùmén· 1868
  W. A. P. Martin (丁韙良), Tongwen College
  3 / 27 forms survive
• 化學初階 Huàxué Chūjiē· 1870
  John G. Kerr (嘉約翰) & Hé Liǎorán (何瞭然)
  8 / 28 forms survive
• 金石識別 Jīnshí Shíbié· 1871
  D. J. MacGowan (瑪高溫) & Huà Héngfāng (華蘅芳)
  2 / 28 forms survive
• 化學鑑原 Huàxué Jiànyuán· 1871
  Xú Shòu (徐壽) & John Fryer (傅蘭雅), Jiangnan Arsenal
  19 / 28 forms survive
• 化學指南 Huàxué Zhǐnán· 1873
  Anatole Billequin (畢利幹) & Lián Zǐzhèn (聯子振)
  0 / 5 forms survive
• 化學元素修正表 Revised List of Chemical Elements· 1898
  Educational Association of China (益智書會)
  0 / 1 forms survive
• 亞泉雜誌 Yàquán Zázhì· 1900
  Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉)
  6 / 6 forms survive
• 化學名目與命名法 Chemical Terms and Nomenclature· 1901
  Educational Association of China (益智書會)
  1 / 5 forms survive
• 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū· 1905
  Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
  35 / 56 forms survive
• 無機化學命名草案 Draft inorganic nomenclature· 1915
  Ministry of Education, Republic of China
  1 / 1 forms survive
• 化學命名原則 Principles of Chemical Nomenclature· 1933
  Zhèng Zhènwén (鄭貞文), National Institute for Compilation and Translation
  40 / 41 forms survive
• 化學命名原則（修訂） Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, revised· 1945
  Ministry of Education, Republic of China
  3 / 3 forms survive
• 化學命名原則（修訂） Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, PRC revision· 1951
  Academia Sinica / Ministry of Education, PRC
  5 / 5 forms survive
• 無機化合物名詞審查 Inorganic terms review· 1955
  Chemical terms committee, PRC
  3 / 3 forms survive
• 無機化學命名原則 Principles of Inorganic Nomenclature· 1980
  Chinese Chemical Society
  0 / 1 forms survive
• 新華詞典 Xīnhuá Cídiǎn· 1980
  Commercial Press
  0 / 1 forms survive
• 化學名詞 Chemical Terms· 1991
  China National Committee for Terms in Sciences and Technologies (全國科學技術名詞審定委員會)
  9 / 9 forms survive
• 101–109號元素中文命名 Names of elements 101–109· 1998
  CNCTST, after the 1997 IUPAC decision
  6 / 6 forms survive
• 110號元素中文定名 Name of element 110· 2003
  CNCTST
  1 / 1 forms survive
• 111號元素中文定名 Name of element 111· 2007
  CNCTST
  1 / 1 forms survive
• 國立編譯館化學名詞審議委員會 Name of element 112, Taiwan· 2010
  National Institute for Compilation and Translation, Taiwan
  1 / 1 forms survive
• 112號元素中文定名 Name of element 112· 2012
  CNCTST
  1 / 1 forms survive
• 國家教育研究院化學名詞審譯委員會 Names of elements 114 and 116, Taiwan (provisional)· 2012
  National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan
  2 / 2 forms survive
• 114、116號元素中文定名 Names of elements 114 and 116· 2013
  CNCTST
  2 / 2 forms survive
• 113、115、117、118號元素中文定名 Names of elements 113, 115, 117, 118· 2017
  CNCTST with the State Language Commission
  2 / 4 forms survive
• 臺灣正體（國家教育研究院） Current Taiwan standard
  National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan
  11 / 11 forms survive
• 曾提議 Proposed, not adopted
  Various
  0 / 14 forms survive
• 東方集團譯名 Eastern-bloc usage
  Textbooks following Soviet naming
  0 / 1 forms survive
• 日文轉譯 Japanese-mediated transliteration
  Early 20th-century textbooks
  0 / 2 forms survive