aluminum

• aluminium (internationally in science, Commonwealth English)

Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1812, after the earlier 1807 New Latin form alumium.^[1] By surface analysis, Latin alumen +‎ -um

• (General American, Canada) enPR: ə-lo͞o'-mĭ-nəm, IPA^(key): /əˈlu.mɪ.nəm/

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• (UK, General Australian, New Zealand) enPR: ˌæl.(j)ʊˈmɪn.i.əm, IPA^(key): /ˌæl.(j)ʊˈmɪn.jəm/ (corresponding to the form aluminium)

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈluː.mɪ.nəm/

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• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /ʔɐ.lʊˈmi.nʊm/

aluminum (countable and uncountable, plural aluminums)

1. US, Canadian, and Philippines standard spelling of aluminium.

• bauxite

• David Barthelmy (1997–2025) “Aluminum”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “aluminum”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2025.
• Michael Quinion (2004) “Aluminum”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, →ISBN.

alūminum

1. genitive plural of alūmen