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Aluminum

//əˈlu.mɪ.nəm// noun

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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

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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