Aluminum or Aluminium? You're Saying it Wrong.

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Aluminum is one of the most common elements in the world, and the most common metal. There's so much of it, you'd think the name would be settled science, but unfortunately for everyone traveling to and from North America, that ain't the case... this baby has TWO (VERY SIMILAR) NAMES.

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P.S. — this video was super fun to research, and I learned a lot about aluminum and metalworking that I didn't even get to share, like... Wolfram vs Tungsten! Tungsten is commonly known as the filament inside incandescent lightbulbs. But its got another name: Wolfram -- because it was isolated by two Spanish brothers from the mineral WOLFRAMITE. They decided to name it after the stuff it came from. But, two Swedes ALSO isolated the element from the mineral, but they called it tung-sten -- heavy stone in Swedish! In this case we have a nice compromise: Tungsten is the name and the chemical symbol is W -- a nod to the name Wolframite.

P.P.S – A lot of this story happened prior to Mendeleev’s discovery of the Periodic Table of Elements, so they KNEW there was probably an element 13, but didn’t necessarily know all the elemental families, groups and so on. Go Dimitri!!