• Tlaloc_Temporal
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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.

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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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.

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year 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.