jxg, I hope you weren't hoping for a short simple answer. lol

 

Yeah, truthfully we should have responded, "Al-26.9815386"...short, simple, precise. But some smart-aleck like Neil would have ratted it out as actually being an alloy of numerous other periodic table participants.

 

Neil probably calls it Al-ew-mini-um, being from Australia and all.
Dan

From Wikipedia
Most countries use the spelling aluminium (with an i before -um). In the United States, this spelling is largely unknown, and the spelling aluminum predominates.[57][58] The Canadian Oxford Dictionary prefers aluminum, whereas the Australian Macquarie Dictionary prefers aluminium

 

Yesterday I couldn't even spell weldor and now I are one.

 

I don't know if this is in the wiki or not, but just a bit of trivia: apparently when the element was discovered and named, it was originally called Aluminum (the American spelling) but was later changed to Aluminium - the way the rest of the world spells it. The Americans stuck with Aluminum though for some reason. So technically the American's are not wrong, though they really should learn to change with the times
*Brace for patriotic American abuse*

 

Aren't you guys just a bunch of convicts down there ? Sorry, descendents of convicts...

Why would we listen to you ?


BTW do you guys spell it Tyre like the brits or Tire like us ?

 

ROFL

As you should expect, we spell it correctly... Tyre

 

Silly Aussies ...

 

At first I was thinking, silly septics, of course its aluminium like all the other "ium" elements. Uranium, radium, lithium etc etc.

What elements end "num"?

Well there are 3.
Molybdenum, Lanthanum and Platinum.

So, I guess Aluminum could be OK.

But its definitely TYRE.

 

this is what I FULLY expected from this group :-)

I have a friend who rebuilds aieroplains (is that how you spell it down there) for a living, he will be able to do a quick spot weld for me....