Sounds like the British guy who discovered it settled on the spelling without the extra i
A January 1811 summary of one of Davy’s lectures at the Royal Society mentioned the name aluminium as a possibility. The next year, Davy published a chemistry textbook in which he used the spelling aluminum.
It was called aluminum for a long time universally. Everyone else changed to aluminium when it was discovered to be an element and was renamed to meet the naming scheme of the time
America kept the old word. I’m half surprised America doesn’t call gold aurium
Sounds like the British guy who discovered it settled on the spelling without the extra i
Kinda seems like there was a typo and it just stuck.
It was called aluminum for a long time universally. Everyone else changed to aluminium when it was discovered to be an element and was renamed to meet the naming scheme of the time
America kept the old word. I’m half surprised America doesn’t call gold aurium
Do you not think that textbook would have multiple places where they use that word?