Aha! Yet a third story; in this one Davy started out with "aluminum" and the Europeans ~added~ the 'i'.
--- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* Ignorance is the mother of adventure. -Hagar the Horrible */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joe Monk Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2020 07:22 The British Scientist (Davy) who discovered ALUMINUM named it that. It is we Americans who are using the correct name ... the British press felt that it should be in line with sodium and potassium and thus added to the spelling. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
