• Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
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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

      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.

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      11 months ago

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