Aluminum
/əˈlu.mɪ.nəm/ noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 American, Canadian, and Philippines standard spelling of aluminium. countable, uncountable
- 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