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Isn't this nice... almost no need for a moderator here

Them's fightin' words, boy!                               

the voice of American reason..

Actually, that would be Southern reason... 

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Isn't this nice... almost no need for a moderator here

Them's fightin' words, boy!                               

the voice of American reason..

That was a joke, I say that was a joke, son!  (in my best Foghorn Leghorn)

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(You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary)
1. Then look up aluminium, and check the pronunciation guide. You
will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it.

The earliest citation given in the Oxford English Dictionary for any word used as a name for this element is alumium, which Humphry Davy employed in 1808 for the metal he was trying to isolate electrolytically from the mineral alumina. The citation is from his journal Philosophical Transactions: "Had I been so fortunate as..to have procured the metallic substances I was in search of, I should have proposed for them the names of silicium, alumium, zirconium, and glucium."[15]

By 1812, Davy had settled on aluminum, which, as other sources note, matches its Latin root. He wrote in the journal Chemical Philosophy: "As yet Aluminum has not been obtained in a perfectly free state."[16] But the same year, an anonymous contributor to the Quarterly Review, a British political-literary journal, objected to aluminum and proposed the name aluminium, "for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound."[17]

The -ium suffix had the advantage of conforming to the precedent set in other newly discovered elements of the period: potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, and strontium (all of which Davy had isolated himself). Nevertheless, -um spellings for elements were not unknown at the time, as for example platinum, known to Europeans since the 16th century, molybdenum, discovered in 1778, and tantalum, discovered in 1802.

Americans adopted -ium for most of the 19th century, with aluminium appearing in Webster's Dictionary of 1828. In 1892, however, Charles Martin Hall used the -um spelling in an advertising handbill for his new electrolytic method of producing the metal, despite his constant use of the -ium spelling in all the patents he filed between 1886 and 1903.[18] It has consequently been suggested that the spelling on the flier was a simple spelling mistake.[citation needed] Hall's domination of production of the metal ensured that the spelling aluminum became the standard in North America; the Webster Unabridged Dictionary of 1913, though, continued to use the -ium version.

In 1926, the American Chemical Society officially decided to use aluminum in its publications; American dictionaries typically label the spelling aluminium as a British variant.


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Sir Humphry Davy (1778 - 1829) was a British chemist

Rob 

We need moderators. This topic is a perfect example. It's way off-topic. I say either lock it or get the topic back on-topic. A challenge for the ones that want's to be a moderator 

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We need moderators. This topic is a perfect example. It's way off-topic. I say either lock it or get the topic back on-topic. A challenge for the ones that want's to be a moderator 

Agreed!  And the nationality slurs should not be allowed, even in jest.

Dan took the bait...does this mean he wants to be a moderator? 


Just kidding Dan. 

Is this still being considered?

Moderators, I mean.

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Why?  Do you need one?

He does not, but some others do

Ken / Geri

Can you please advise if this subject which you proposed some months ago is still under consideration?

One only has to view the posts over the last week to see that the behaviour, post-swamping, and insults/bullying, within the forum have deteriorated further, and IMO action needs to be taken in some form before more and more users cease to participate here and/or stop contributing to the program.

Rich.