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• Geodad@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ll accept that when they stop pronouncing aluminum as “alumimium”.

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But all the other elements are -iums as well, so aluminium makes more sense.

    Regards someone from neither country

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    • Geodad@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But all the other elements are -iums

      Hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus…

      There are many elements that don’t end in - ium. The rule is that whoever discovers the element gets to name it.

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      • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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        We have a draw.

        The first name proposed for the metal to be isolated from alum was alumium, which Davy suggested in an 1808 article on his electrochemical research, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

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    • moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      All of them? Are you sure?

      On an unrelated note, apparently the Eagles “Their Greatest Hits” album was certified 38x Platinium.

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      • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Oh no, not all of them. I’m just too lazy to write a more accurate sentence.

        -ium is a commonly used Latin suffix for elements. The name for platin cones from spanish “platina”, ‘little silver’.

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