Comment on Aluminum

Vinny_93@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• TheTetrapod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  People always argue that -num isn’t a legitimate way for the name of an element to end, but I never see you guys talking about Platinium.

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  • Vinny_93@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All words are made up and language isn’t real

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  • rainynight65@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Then we also need to talk about Sodum, Potassum, Magnesum, Plutonum, Uranum, Cadmum, Chromum, Titanum and a bunch more. Why should Aluminum be the outlier?

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    • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • UNY0N@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You know thwy spelled them all wrong on purpose, right?

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    • PopShark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah well blowsraspberry

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  • Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah because platinum is a concept. Nobody has gotten an aluminum record, or an aluminum medal. Some metals have ascended beyond mere utility into superficiality.

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• pythonoob@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Pronounced aluminyum

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  • anzo@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Halloumi, yummy.

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