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In 1808, Humphry Davy originally proposed the name alumium while trying to isolate the new metal electrolytically from the mineral alumina. In 1812, he changed the name to aluminum to match its Latin root. The same year, an anonymous contributor to the Quarterly Review, a British political-literary journal, objected to aluminum and proposed the name aluminium.
"Aluminium, for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound." (Q. Review VIII. 72, 1812)
"Aluminium, for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound." (Q. Review VIII. 72, 1812)