Translation Please!!!
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Erm, don't think you can patent an element!Originally posted by MrPink
I hate to stick up for ScepticsBut wasn't it an American who patented/Discovered/whatever Aluminium and therefore their spelling and pronouncition is correct?
More likely they developed a method for making it into foil or something.Can just see that now - "OK, I've discovered this stuff called Oxygen & patented it, so everyone who wants to use it has to pay me royalties". On second thoughts, where's that patent application form.
It *was* an American who patented "Aluminium" (yes, there WAS an i in it) and set up a company called the Pittsburgh Aluminium Company.
Previously there was a disagreement on the spelling because as early as the 1800s, it was referred to as "Alumium", when then got replaced by "Aluminum", and shortly after accepted as "Aluminium" by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists - mainly to bring it into line with all the other elements that ended in "ium".
However, due to a clerical error, when the Pittsburgh Aluminium Company changed its name, it "accidentally" became the "Aluminum Company of America".
But basically, both spellings are correct...
Previously there was a disagreement on the spelling because as early as the 1800s, it was referred to as "Alumium", when then got replaced by "Aluminum", and shortly after accepted as "Aluminium" by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists - mainly to bring it into line with all the other elements that ended in "ium".
However, due to a clerical error, when the Pittsburgh Aluminium Company changed its name, it "accidentally" became the "Aluminum Company of America".
But basically, both spellings are correct...
Nope, was some Danish dude called Hans.Originally posted by MrPink
I hate to stick up for Sceptics
As usual the yanks just have to be different.
Like WTF is a faucett???????
Cool
Look at a periodic table, there is an actual element called Krypton.
A naturally occuring gas found in the atmosphere. Superman beware.
Look at a periodic table, there is an actual element called Krypton.
A naturally occuring gas found in the atmosphere. Superman beware.
Yep, and there are rumours that it was actually a printing error for their first flyers without the I, and they didn't change them, which led to it being widely known as Aluminum.Originally posted by QuackingPlums
It *was* an American who patented "Aluminium" (yes, there WAS an i in it) and set up a company called the Pittsburgh Aluminium Company.
Previously there was a disagreement on the spelling because as early as the 1800s, it was referred to as "Alumium", when then got replaced by "Aluminum", and shortly after accepted as "Aluminium" by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists - mainly to bring it into line with all the other elements that ended in "ium".
However, due to a clerical error, when the Pittsburgh Aluminium Company changed its name, it "accidentally" became the "Aluminum Company of America".
But basically, both spellings are correct...
manike
Yeah, I heard that story too, but haven't found anything else to substantiate it other than a close friend who happens to be a Materials lecturer at Oxford... but then, what does he know?