• vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    The fuck happened with that one. Its literally the same word, this isnt an aluminum vs aliminium situation where the namer was a fuck up and called it both so people flipped a coin. Fucking English spelling is ratfucked.

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      11 months ago

      No one has ever proposed “aliminium” for the name of the element.

      “Alumium” was the original, “Aluminum” and “Aluminium” were battled in American and British journals.

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        11 months ago

        British chemist Humphrey Davy named it alumium at first but immediately changed it aluminum. A journalist reporting on his discovery changed it to aluminium.

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        11 months ago

        The -ium ending is the standard naming convention for elements, e.g., plutonium, natrium, kalium.

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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        11 months ago

        Fair enough, I guess I was just miss remembering. I thought he called it both multiple times and the US and Britain just said fuck it and went with one or the other.