• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 hours ago

    So the guy who discovered it published a book and named his discovery in his book “aluminum”?

    Well case closed. It’s aluminum.

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      and then scientific consensus made him change it. there was a clique of, quote, “patriotic” englishmen who, worried about “foreign influences”, kept using the misspelling, but they were very few and very much gone by the time the americans changed their minds.