Polish, as I understand it

I made a rash assumption that the elements of the periodic table would be similar in Polish and how wrong I was. Clue: Z wodorem tworzy amoniak - with hydrogen makes ammonia. Well, the compound ammonia is a similar word and the word for hydrogen at least has the same kind of route origin as our word.  Hydrogen means water generating, wodór comes from wodoród from wodo-rodu again meaning water generating / producing / birthing. From school chemistry, I know the answer is nitrogen, because ammonia is only made of hydrogen and nitrogen.  However, there's only space for four letters and the first letter is A.  I'm going to have to look this one up. Answer: Azot Clearly, I am going to have to brush up on some elements that I might commonly come across is everyday life and my work in medicine.  Firstly, chemical element is pierwiastek chemiczny .  Now for some of their names: Azot - Nitrogen          Azot, from the French Azote which itself is from the Greek for not-life Wodór - Hyd