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[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Thank you for spelling aluminium correctly.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

They were playing both sides

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No. The Latin ending -ium designates that something comes from a place. Like, magnesium was originally found in Magnesia. Aluminia is not a place. It's name is derived from the Latin word 'alumen' for aluminum oxide.

This is what happens when you let people read the Bible in English.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) adopted aluminium as the standard international name for the element.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

In the original book it was written as aluminum, the British publisher, got it wrong and the country has been saying it wrong ever since.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

the country has been saying it wrong ever since

If by country you mean the USA (and its northern colony). Literally everyone else in every language that matters spells it aluminium.

Also, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) adopted aluminium as the standard international name for the element.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

It's the aluminimum I could do