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And aluminum was what it was originally spelled as well, at this point it’s not going to change in American English. Even the IUPAC acknowledges it as accepted, it’s been there from the start can we move on past this after 200+ years?
But they’re almost all ‘iums’, changing just one is like finding a fly in a bowl of cereal
Molybdenum, lanthanum, tantalum, platinum, it’s not unique and not all got latinized.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/aluminum
And aluminum was what it was originally spelled as well, at this point it’s not going to change in American English. Even the IUPAC acknowledges it as accepted, it’s been there from the start can we move on past this after 200+ years?