Current international agreement for all new elements is to end them with -ium.
Odd how the USA hangs on to impractical learnings. Even the UK moved to SI units while I was at school in the 1960s. Took me a while to get used to a gallon that isn't a gallon and a pint that isn't a pint (16 oz vs 20 oz.). You also short changed the ton by 240 lbs. And Webster, whilst described as an anglophile gave you center instead of centre, defense instead of defence... Not sure why saying an abacus is a computer makes me insane:) The best joker wore a mask. On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 8:19 AM Tony Thigpen <t...@vse2pdf.com> wrote: > Personally, I prefer a more authoritative source than Google, but it is > almost the same story: > > https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/aluminum-vs-aluminium > > Tony Thigpen > > Bob Bridges wrote on 7/19/20 6:09 PM: > > Because I know you were all breathlessly awaiting the verdict on the > great "aluminum"/"aluminium" controversy, I went to find more information. > At https://books.google.com/books?id=YjMwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA201 you can find a > page in _Elements of Chemical Philosophy_ by Humphrey Davy (who first > isolated aluminum), published in 1812; here he talks about "aluminum" (a > metal to be found in alumina, which in turn was processed from alum). > Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium) says this about the > name: > > > > "British chemist Humphry Davy, who performed a number of experiments > aimed to isolate the metal, is credited as the person who named the > element. In 1808, he suggested the metal be named alumium in an article on > his electrochemical research which was published in Philosophical > Transactions of the Royal Society. This suggestion was criticized by > contemporary chemists from France, Germany, and Sweden, who insisted the > metal should be named for the oxide, alumina, from which it would be > isolated. In 1812, Davy published a chemistry textbook in which he settled > on the name aluminum, thus producing the modern name. However, its spelling > and pronunciation varies: aluminum is in use in the United States and > Canada while aluminium is in use elsewhere." > > > > That sounds plausible to me. > > > > --- > > Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 > > > > /* It's ok to doubt your beliefs; but it's not ok to believe your > doubts. -Jim Snider, pastor, 2000-12-10 */ > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bob Bridges [mailto:robhbrid...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2020 17:34 > > > > Aha! Yet a third story; in this one Davy started out with "aluminum" > and the Europeans ~added~ the 'i'. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > 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 lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
