† alumium Chem. Obs.
(əˈl(j)uːmɪəm)
The name first suggested by Davy for the metal which he finally called aluminum, a name eventually further changed to aluminium.
| 1808 Sir H. Davy in Phil. Trans. XCVIII. 353 Had I been so fortunate as..to have procured the metallic substances I was in search of, I should have proposed for them the names of silicium, alumium, zirconium, and glucium. 1815 W. Phillips Outl. Min. & Geol. (ed. 3) 22 Alumine consists of Oxygen united with a base Alumium the nature of which has not been completely ascertained. 1854 Pereira Mat. Med. (L.) Aluminum, aluminium, or alumium, is the metallic base of the earth alumina. |