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The name of aluminum in Latin is alumen. Aluminum salts (alum) have been used since ancient times, and in 1808, Humphry Davy identified the metal base, calling it alumium and later aluminum. But the metal itself was not isolated until 1825, by Hans Christian Orsted.

The variant name aluminium was created after the fact and was widely propagated. Despite the adoption of the -ium ending by IUPAC, the -um ending is used almost exclusively throughout North America.

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