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      118 days ago

      But all the other elements are -iums as well, so aluminium makes more sense.

      Regards someone from neither country

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        018 days ago

        All of them? Are you sure?

        On an unrelated note, apparently the Eagles “Their Greatest Hits” album was certified 38x Platinium.

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          018 days ago

          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’.

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        118 days 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.

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          218 days 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.