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How to speak to a vaccine sceptic: research reveals what works (www.nature.com)

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[–] Geodad@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I'll accept that when they stop pronouncing aluminum as "alumimium".

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

But all the other elements are -iums as well, so aluminium makes more sense.

Regards someone from neither country

[–] Geodad@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But all the other elements are -iums

Hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus...

There are many elements that don't end in - ium. The rule is that whoever discovers the element gets to name it.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

We have a draw.

The first name proposed for the metal to be isolated from alum was alumium, which Davy suggested in an 1808 article on his electrochemical research, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

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