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minus-squareGeodad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·15 hours agoI’ll accept that when they stop pronouncing aluminum as “alumimium”.
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·14 hours agoBut all the other elements are -iums as well, so aluminium makes more sense. Regards someone from neither country
minus-squaremoobythegoldensock@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up2·13 hours agoAll of them? Are you sure? On an unrelated note, apparently the Eagles “Their Greatest Hits” album was certified 38x Platinium.
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·13 hours agoOh 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’.
minus-squaremoobythegoldensock@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 hours agoThere’s also molybdenum, lanthanum, and tantalum. “ium” is not a hard and fast rule.
minus-squareGeodad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·13 hours 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.
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·13 hours ago 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.
I’ll accept that when they stop pronouncing aluminum as “alumimium”.
But all the other elements are -iums as well, so aluminium makes more sense.
Regards someone from neither country
All of them? Are you sure?
On an unrelated note, apparently the Eagles “Their Greatest Hits” album was certified 38x Platinium.
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’.
There’s also molybdenum, lanthanum, and tantalum. “ium” is not a hard and fast rule.
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.
We have a draw.