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Originally Posted by Hiro11
We call it aluminum. Trivia: both "aluminum" and "aluminium" are correct. There was a debate on what to call the metal among the British chemists in the early 1800s that was never really resolved so both names were adopted. "Aluminum" is actually the earlier name.
I thought maybe it was named after the famous inventor, Al Youminium...
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