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dpe82today at 6:46 AM1 replyview on HN

Sir Humphry Davy first isolated the stuff and he called it aluminum, so that's good enough for me.


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st_goliathtoday at 7:23 AM

Well, the name Davy originally proposed was alumium.

I propose we switch to that instead, so everyone can be annoyed equally and in the same way.

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