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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The rest of the world got the right version of the man’s work

Which is (or at least should be) "Aluminium" because that's the internationally agreed IUPAC spelling.

We gave up the cooler spelling of Sulfur to be consistent with IUPAC - if we can do that, then surely giving up on "-num" should be a cakewalk.