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.

Pronounced aluminyum

STEEL IS AN ALLOY, YOU PHILISTINE

Aluminum is where it's at, and where it is, is everywhere.

Your cans? Aluminum. Your car? Mostly aluminum. Old wiring, you better believe that's aluminum. Your fucking phone screen is aluminum, sand paper is aluminum, half the birth stones are all aluminum let's fucking goooo baybee

Us Americans are too excited about making stuff with our Uh-loo-min-um that we just skip pronouncing some of the vowels

IKR I'm so glad I can pronounce Aluminum the right way.

Are you dense?

Aluminum is F grade allomantic material.

That's because the only way to get aluminum, historically, was to find nuggets of it. The process for extracting it from bauxite wasn't invented until the mid to late 1800s. This is reflected in Dwarf Fortress, as aluminum metal has the same value as platinum and bauxite is a near-worthless construction material.

You as a human use pure iron. But non-animate objects, yeah mostly alloys

Car guys are just the male equivalent of horse girls

Every metal is drinkable as a hot soup

...anodised aluminium beats stainless steel in every application except hardness...

Dragonforce is the hardest metal known to man, it is the metal you use to break diamond

Found the astronomer.

You do realise that aluminium (ium) is not spelled the same as aluminum (um) ? It's not a case of the same letters being pronounced two different ways

Titanium is awesome, though. Has similar corrosion properties to aluminum (in that it only oxidizes on the surface), is similar in strength to iron/steel, but is only about 60% of the weight iron. So it's lighter.
Plus if you mix in molybdenum and I think some nickel, you can have yourself a very long lasting spring that won't sag like steel springs after several years.
Main downside is it's so expensive compared to iron :(