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The Latin equivalent of the English word 'metal' was the following: metallum. But the word wasn't a common choice by writers in ancient, classical Latin. For they instead tended to refer to a metal by its actual name, such as 'aurum' for 'gold' and 'ferrum' for 'iron'.

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