| Iodine | I | 53 | Reactive nonmetal | French iode (after the Greek ioeides, 'violet') | 17 | 5 | 126.90 | 0.00 | 4.93 | 386.85 | 457.40 | 0.21 | 2.66 | 0.45 | 
          
                | Hassium | Hs | 108 | Transition metal | Hesse, Germany, where the element was first synthesized | 8 | 7 |  |  | -40.70 |  |  |  |  | 0.00 | 
          
                | Holmium | Ho | 67 | Lanthanide | Holmia, the New Latin name for Stockholm |  | 6 | 164.93 | 0.00 | 8.80 | 1734.00 | 2993.00 | 0.17 | 1.23 | 1.30 | 
          
                | Mercury | Hg | 80 | Post-transition metal | the New Latin name mercurius, named after the Roman god (Hg from former name hydrargyrum, from Greek hydr-, 'water', and argyros, 'silver') | 12 | 6 | 200.59 | 0.00 | 13.53 | 234.43 | 629.88 | 0.14 | 2.00 | 0.09 | 
          
                | Hafnium | Hf | 72 | Transition metal | Hafnia, the New Latin name for Copenhagen | 4 | 6 | 178.49 | 0.02 | 13.31 | 2506.00 | 4876.00 | 0.14 | 1.30 | 3.00 | 
          
                | Helium | He | 2 | Noble gas | the Greek helios, 'sun' | 18 | 1 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |  | 4.22 | 5.19 |  | 0.01 | 
          
                | Hydrogen | H | 1 | Reactive nonmetal | composed of the Greek elements hydro- and -gen meaning 'water-forming' | 1 | 1 | 1.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 14.01 | 20.28 | 14.30 | 2.20 | 1400.00 | 
          
                | Germanium | Ge | 32 | Metalloid | Germania, the Latin name for Germany | 14 | 4 | 72.63 | 0.01 | 5.32 | 1211.40 | 3106.00 | 0.32 | 2.01 | 1.50 | 
          
                | Gadolinium | Gd | 64 | Lanthanide | Johan Gadolin, chemist, physicist and mineralogist |  | 6 | 157.25 | 0.03 | 7.90 | 1585.00 | 3546.00 | 0.24 | 1.20 | 6.20 | 
          
                | Gallium | Ga | 31 | Post-transition metal | Gallia, the Latin name for France | 13 | 4 | 69.72 | 0.00 | 5.91 | 302.91 | 2673.00 | 0.37 | 1.81 | 19.00 |