Aluminum

/əˈlu.mɪ.nəm/ noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    American, Canadian, and Philippines standard spelling of aluminium. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite wordnet

Example

More examples

"Make balls 3 centimeters in diameter and place them on a sheet of buttered aluminum foil."

Etymology

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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