Actually, even though I grew up calling it aluminium, by international agreement chemists call it aluminum. (yeah, I saw the smiley, but it's time to realize that the sun has set on the Empire ;-) )
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Nov 01, 2005
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Care to cite the source of that name change? :)
I'm happy with Wikipedia
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I found it on the internet, so it must be true ;)
David.
Would you believe alumine or alumium?
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oxide, is it alumina, alumine, or aluminia?
im sorry guys. it's was the neurontin. made me psychotic. just visiting anyway. ill go back to the schizo group. but thanks for the helpful response chaver jeff. hell at least i added some excitement to your major geek forum. aside i will put anything metal on my head. right now i am sporting a fashionable cranial barbell weight. it does the body good. well that's it. bye bye. back to crazyland
Yeah, I already apologized to David. My HS chemistry teacher insisted the international society had standardized on the American spelling. He lied to us :-( Who'd have thought that teachers could get things wrong? I'm devastated.
That link works for me Jeff, particularly the bit:-
"the word ALUMINIUM was adopted by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists"
:)
Sucks eh? Ask a politician next time for a factual answer!
I'm figuring that at least in Canada, you can spell colour correctly and centre too.
Sorry, we digress. :)
Some standards organization. Go to their search page at:
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punch in aluminum or aluminium. It get 220 for aluminum and 243 for aluminium. 37 page show both. They don't even follow their own standards. Mailing address in Triangle Research Park in North Carolina. Methinks they're traitors to the American way of mis-spelling.
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