Hi. Firstly, want to ask you: do you know which minerals you need to find information for? There are many minerals important for the body such as: Calcium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sulfur, Sodium, Chlorine, Magnesium, Iron, Cobalt Copper, Zinc, Molybdenum, Iodine, Selenium, Manganese, Nickel, Chromium, Florine etc. Are these sufficient or not?
Anyways, I've made some progress about this question. About the chemical formula (or more precisely: chemical symbol) you just have to write the symbol of each of these elements. For example:
Calcium=Ca, Phosphorus=P, Potassium=K, Sulfur=S, Sodium=Na, Chlorine=Cl etc. I'm pretty sure that's quite easy and you can do it yourself.
About the percent chemical composition: I think you have to write the mass percent of each of these minerals. For this, I found this very useful pdf:
http://justonly.com/chemistry/pdfs/elemental_composition_human.pdf where it mentions the mass of all the elements (minerals or not, though you will need only the minerals) in a 70kg human body. To find the percentage you can do:
(mass of the mineral/70kg)*100% (be careful with the units)
But, because this is kidda time consuming, you can use wikipedia (the numbers are the same with only small differences):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_of_the_human_body#Elemental_composition_list(you use the: "percent of mass" column. Again, not all are important minerals. You must choose only the important minerals- I think that the minerals that I suggested will be enough.)
Some examples for the percentage of body mass: Calcium 1.4%, Phosphorus 1.1%, Potassium 0.25%, sulfur 0,25% ect.
Finding the origin of the name is also easy using internet.
The names of most (if not all) of these minerals are originated from greek and latin names.
For example, of you type: "Calcium name origin" in google, you will easily find that the name origin is the latin "calcis" which means "lime".
Another example: With a similar search for phosphorus, you can easily find that the origin is the Greek word "phos" (meaning "light") and "phoros" (meaning bearer/bringer) so, phosphorus in Greek means bringer of light.
Similarly: Potassium name origin is the english "
potash", and about the K symbol: it originates from the latin name "kalium", which originates from the Arabic word "qali" meaning alkali.
Similarly, you can quite easily search for the origins of the rest of the minerals.
About the alternative names: Not all the minerals have alternative names.
Brimstone is synonym to Sulfur
Kalium is sometimes used instead of Potassium
Natrium is sometimes used instead of Sodium
Bertholite is an alternative for chlorine.
I'd suggest you to try to make a search for this too, and if you can't find much results I'll help too. Remember, not all of these minerals have alternative names, so don't search for hours an alternative that doesn't exist
That's it for now, I'll look for the second (and apparently harder) part of this exercise another day. Meanwhile, it would be helpful if you could reply, present me your progress (if you manage to do any), and ask anything that you don't understand.