The original spelling wasn’t aluminum, it was alumium. Which then was proposed to be aluminium in French, and got picked up by the Royal Society. After, the guy who introduced the term to the Royal Society (Humphry Davy) started calling it aluminum but the other term had already stuck.
The original spelling wasn’t aluminum, it was alumium. Which then was proposed to be aluminium in French, and got picked up by the Royal Society. After, the guy who introduced the term to the Royal Society (Humphry Davy) started calling it aluminum but the other term had already stuck.