aluminum.
American, Canadian, and Philippines standard spelling of aluminium.
Meaning & usage
American, Canadian, and Philippines standard spelling of aluminium.
Where this word comes from
Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1812, after the earlier 1807 New Latin form alumium. By surface analysis, Latin alumen + -um
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