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

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Platinum says hello.

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That’s an after the fact convention though. I dont see anyone proposing we rename iron to ferium, silver to argentium, or lead to plumbumium.

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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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