• Dasus@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 天前

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

          Regards someone from neither country

            • Dasus@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 天前

              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’.

          • Geodad@lemmy.world
            21·
            2 天前

            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.

            • Dasus@lemmy.world
              3·
              2 天前

              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.