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Seems that the true original, and growing in popularity both in the US and UK, is the term aluminum (uh-LOOM-in-um) as opposed to the forced-into-compliance aluminium (al-YOU-mini-um).
You have revealed nothing new. It has long been settled that Aluminium is the official name of the metal.
The American Chemical Society (ACS) officially adopted aluminum in 1925, but in 1990 The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) accepted aluminium as the international standard.
Sir Humphry Davy, a British chemist, discovered this metal in 1808. He also discovered and named sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium, barium, and boron; lots of “ium” usage in those names, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Davy originally gave this element the name aluminum after the mineral alumina, whose name derive from the base alum which means “bitter salt” in Latin. This original spelling straddles the two competing versions we have today.
You have revealed nothing new. It has long been settled that Aluminium is the official name of the metal.
The American Chemical Society (ACS) officially adopted aluminum in 1925, but in 1990 The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) accepted aluminium as the international standard.
I thought aluminum is the commercial alloy, and aluminium is the pure element.
So did I.
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Yeah, but how do you pronounce gif?
According to the guy who created it - it's pronounced jif.
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