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Old 30-October-2006, 11:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Maksutov View Post
In the US it's aluminum. Quite elementary.
Agreed that the ACS (American Chemical Society) decided that it was aluminum in 1925 and this is the common use in the US. However the rest of the world uses the IUPAC recommended spelling - aluminium. Although I did attend Missouri-Rolla, I still belong to the rest of the world.

PS - With the growth of US Spanish, are the Americans going to start using aluminio? or will the ACS invent alumino?
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