Total revisionist history...we all know that Oxford is a front for the British Secret Service.
-- jon suffixi this sig! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday, August 13, 2002, 10:23:37 AM, you wrote: KG> According to the OED: KG> Aluminum = Aluminium; being the name given by Davy in 1812, and the usual KG> form in the U.S. KG> 1812 SIR H. DAVY Chem. Philos. I. 355 As yet Aluminum has not been obtained KG> in a perfectly free state. 1833 Penny Cycl. I. 406 Alumina, the earthy oxide KG> of aluminum sometimes called argil or the argillaceous earth. 1855 in Proc. KG> Am. Phil. Soc. VI. 141 Mr. DuBois laid upon the table specimens of the metal KG> aluminum. 1879 C. CAMERON in Cassell's Techn. Educ. I. 170 Aluminum is a KG> white malleable metal. KG> And some usages of Aluminium: KG> 1812 Q. Rev. VIII. 72 Aluminium, for so we shall take the liberty of writing KG> the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound. 1835 KG> HOBLYN Dict. Med. 6 Aluminium, the metallic base of alumina. 1845 Vest. KG> Creation ii. (ed. 3) 34 Aluminium..is another abundant elementary substance. KG> c1860 FARADAY Forces of Nat. i. 195 note, Aluminium is 2 times heavier than KG> water. 1869 Eng. Mech. 14 May 187/3 Some Belgian manufacturer has just had a KG> bell cast of aluminium. 1876 C. GEIKIE Life in Woods xxv. 399 Science got KG> the beautiful metal aluminium out of the clay which ignorance trod under KG> foot. KG> So the name was coined by _Sir_ H. Davy in 1812 and used in writing with KG> both spellings. KG> Now y'all just need to argue about the proper declinations of the KG> Alumina/Aluminum suffixi. KG> Kevin Graeme ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
