aluminum

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
18
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/əˈlu.mɪ.nəm/
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/əˈlu.mɪ.nəm/ · /ˌæl.(j)ʊˈmɪn.jəm/ (UK) · /əˈluː.mɪ.nəm/ (UK) · /ʔɐ.lʊˈmi.nʊm/

Definition of aluminum

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)American, Canadian, and Philippines standard spelling of aluminium.

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Etymology

Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1812, after the earlier 1807 New Latin form alumium. By surface analysis, Latin alumen + -um

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