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| Posted: Sat Sep 11th, 2010 07:05 pm |
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BayouBoogie
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kargol wrote:
I believe it was actually named "aluminum" by the scientist who first officially identified it. Then other scientists wanted to change it to "aluminium" because it seemed to follow the standard you pointed out in the names "lithium" and "sodium." But it comes from the word "alumina" so the "um" seems to be proper (like "platinum"), given that other names ending in "ium" came from mineral names that already had the "i" in place. So different authorities went with different spellings/pronunciations. In the US and Canada, "aluminum" is preferred by the standards of the scientific community, though it is recognized that UK and Australia use "aliuminium." Last edited on Sat Sep 11th, 2010 07:12 pm by BayouBoogie |
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| Posted: Sat Sep 11th, 2010 07:08 pm |
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BayouBoogie
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clawmaster wrote: thunderbolt wrote:Every time you hear the phrase "with all due respect", you can be certain you are about to be called an asshole. Off subject, but I've read a couple of wild things from Jason Hart. He said some ridiculous things about Al Perez. In particular, he claimed Perez was going to win the World title from Flair but he didn't feel like waiting for the date that it was going to happen so he told them he would just take it in a shoot at some house show. This got him in trouble with the company and his planned World Title run was scrapped. How can anyone even repeat that crap with a straight face?? Last edited on Sat Sep 11th, 2010 07:09 pm by BayouBoogie |
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| Posted: Sat Sep 11th, 2010 07:21 pm |
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thunderbolt HALL OF FAMER 
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I have always understood this difference to be one of practical application only. The element on the periodic table is Aluminium, while the metal commonly used in industrial application is most often called Aluminum, since it is actually not a pure rendering of the element, but is technically an alloy.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 11th, 2010 07:27 pm |
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BayouBoogie
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thunderbolt wrote: I have always understood this difference to be one of practical application only. The element on the periodic table is Aluminium, while the metal commonly used in industrial application is most often called Aluminum, since it is actually not a pure rendering of the element, but is technically an alloy. I thought the same way you did, T-Bolt, but doing a little quick research on the wiki and a couple of science related reference sites (ALWAYS back the wiki up with its sources), it looks like it goes deeper than that. Like I said in the other post, the element was named "aluminum" by the inventor who named it. He got the name by putting the standard "um" suffix on the word "alumina," but other scientists felt like "aluminium" fit the naming precedents. The argument against that was that the words those names were derived from ended in "ia" rather than "a". There was a debate and different organizations of scientific authority chose different spellings. The international spelling (as well as that in Australia and UK) is "aluminium" though "aluminum" is an accepted variant according to IUPAC. in the US and Canada, it is the other way around, with "aluminum" being the standard and "aluminium" being an accepted variant (though it is rarely used in the US). Btw, my American spell check tells me "aluminium" not spelled correctly. Last edited on Sat Sep 11th, 2010 07:41 pm by BayouBoogie |
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| Posted: Sat Sep 11th, 2010 09:17 pm |
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kargol
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It was Humphrey Davy who first isolated aluminium, and, as he got it from alum, he called it alumium. But aluminium was being used within a year of discovery. As far as I can tell, Davy only used aluminum once, and that might have been a typo in the chemical paper.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 11th, 2010 09:49 pm |
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BayouBoogie
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kargol wrote: It was Humphrey Davy who first isolated aluminium, and, as he got it from alum, he called it alumium. But aluminium was being used within a year of discovery. As far as I can tell, Davy only used aluminum once, and that might have been a typo in the chemical paper. Regardless, he called it aluminum and several authorities still use that term, although the international standard is aluminium (while allowing aluminum as an accepted variant). So neither is "wrong," just different practices, like the differences in Koran and Quran, etc.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 11th, 2010 10:28 pm |
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kargol
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Koran/Quran is just different approaches to transliteration, like the ex-Soviet leader being called Gorbatschow in Germany. "Aluminum" is just wrong, I don't care that the IUPAC considers it an acceptable alternative, they're the cunts who think sulphur is spelt with an f.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 13th, 2010 12:00 pm |
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Heretic
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Aren't you from that stupid country that puts unnecessary "u"s in everything (labour, colour, etc.)?
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| Posted: Mon Sep 13th, 2010 01:55 pm |
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BayouBoogie
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kargol wrote: Koran/Quran is just different approaches to transliteration, like the ex-Soviet leader being called Gorbatschow in Germany. "Aluminum" is just wrong, I don't care that the IUPAC considers it an acceptable alternative, they're the cunts who think sulphur is spelt with an f. But why is it "wrong" when several authorities on the subject accept it? It's just preference as to which style you prefer. And like I said, my spell check doesn't even accept aluminium, so in this counrty "aluminum" is "correct". The "um" suffix is actually more in line with proper spelling because of the source word "alumina". The "ium" suffix was only preferable to many because it seems to fit the naming trend of the day. Seems that one spelling was based on grammatical tradition and the other on "sounding/looking right" based on a naming trend. Last edited on Mon Sep 13th, 2010 02:00 pm by BayouBoogie |
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| Posted: Mon Sep 13th, 2010 03:54 pm |
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Road Warrior Yajuta
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thunderbolt wrote: Every time you hear the phrase "with all due respect", you can be certain you are about to be called an asshole.Best line ever from a video game comes from Mass Effect: Why is it whenever someone says "with all due respect", they really mean "kiss my ass"?~ Chief Ashley Williams
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| Posted: Mon Sep 13th, 2010 06:50 pm |
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kargol
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BayouBoogie wrote: kargol wrote:Koran/Quran is just different approaches to transliteration, like the ex-Soviet leader being called Gorbatschow in Germany. "Aluminum" is just wrong, I don't care that the IUPAC considers it an acceptable alternative, they're the cunts who think sulphur is spelt with an f. And as I said Davy originally called it "alumium" because it came from alum. I live quite near a district called Alum Rock. (Great name for a music genre.) Given that everyone in the English-speaking world calls it "aluminium", why does the US go against that out of sheer randomness? Heretic wrote: Aren't you from that stupid country that puts unnecessary "u"s in everything (labour, colour, etc.)? Yes, on the basis that we don't speak Latin. (The u IS necessary from an historical phonetic perspective, "labor" would be pronounced "labbor" - as in "laboratory".) But if you think that's daft, check out Australia. Labor, but neighbour.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14th, 2010 01:04 am |
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kargol wrote: BayouBoogie wrote:This is America you jackass. Lurn to speak the language or gtfo.kargol wrote:Koran/Quran is just different approaches to transliteration, like the ex-Soviet leader being called Gorbatschow in Germany. "Aluminum" is just wrong, I don't care that the IUPAC considers it an acceptable alternative, they're the cunts who think sulphur is spelt with an f.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14th, 2010 04:44 pm |
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73rd Post |
broke
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At work we had a 40 something gentleman who would constantly say "Cool Beans" to something afirmative, and "Weak Sauce" when he was upset with something. We canned him.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14th, 2010 09:19 pm |
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Heretic
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You canned the cool beans, huh?
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14th, 2010 10:29 pm |
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broke
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With weak sauce, even. He was a completely useless motherfucker. Only reason he lasted as long as he did was we needed someone tall to reach things before we got new shelves at work (he was legit 6'5)
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