aluminium

Alternative forms

 * (see § Usage notes below)

Etymology
First used in 1812 as an alternative form of aluminum which was coined in the same year. From.
 * For information on the origins of the two spellings, see the Wikipedia article.

Noun

 * 1) A light, silvery metal extracted from bauxite, and a chemical element (symbol Al) with an atomic number of 13.
 * 2)  A single atom of this element.
 * 3)  Aircraft or other machinery made partially or wholly of aluminium.

Usage notes
The spelling aluminium is used internationally in chemistry as recommended by IUPAC. In everyday use aluminium is generally used in Commonwealth countries, while aluminum is used in US English.

Synonyms

 * when used as a food colouring
 * when used as a food colouring

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: أَلُومِنْيُوم
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: এলুমিনিয়াম
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: alüminium
 * Basque: aluminioa
 * Belarusian: алюмі́ній
 * Bengali:
 * Breton: aluminiom
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: အလူမီနီယမ်
 * Catalan:
 * Central Melanau: maniyem
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 鋁
 * Hakka: 鋁, 阿路米
 * Hokkien: 鋁, a-lú-mih, , 輕銀仔, 礬素
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 鋁
 * Chuvash: алюмини
 * Cornish: aluminiom
 * Corsican:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Dzongkha: ཀ་ལ
 * Erzya: люм
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Farefare: waasrɛ
 * Faroese: aluminium
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: alumini
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ალუმინი
 * German:
 * Central Franconian: Allu
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole: aliminyòm
 * Hawaiian: ‘Aluminuma
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi: एल्युमिनियम, स्फटयातु
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: aluminium
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , 礬素
 * Javanese: alumunium
 * Kannada: ಅಲ್ಯೂಮಿನಿಯಮ್
 * Kapampangan: aluminiu
 * Kashubian: aluminijô
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: អាលុយមីញ៉ូម, ដេរ៉ា, ញ៉ូម
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ອາລູມິນຽມ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: alumīnijs
 * Limburgish:
 * Lingala: aluminyu
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German: aluminium
 * Luxembourgish: Aluminium
 * Macedonian: алуминиум
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: aluminju
 * Manx: ollymin
 * Maori: konumohe
 * Marathi: ऍल्युमिनियम
 * Mongolian: хөнгөн цагаан
 * Moore: waasdo
 * Navajo: béésh ászólí
 * Nepali: आल्मुनियम
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Occitan:
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Alumienium
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: ch'aqu q'illay
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: स्फटयातु
 * Saterland Frisian: aluminium
 * Scottish Gaelic: alùmanam, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: алу̀мӣнијум, алу̀мӣниј
 * Roman: alùmīnijum,
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:, aluminiamu
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: அலூமீனியம்
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:, อะลูมินัม
 * Tibetan: ཧ་ཡང་
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: alýumin
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: ایلومینیم
 * Uyghur: ئاليۇمىن
 * Uzbek:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Veps: alüminii
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: aluminium
 * White Hmong:
 * Yiddish: אַלומיניום
 * Yoruba: aluminiọmu, bẹ̀lẹ̀jẹ́
 * Zhuang: lij

Noun

 * 1) aluminium

Etymology
Created in 1812, from.

Noun

 * 1) aluminum

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) aluminum (element)

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  a silvery metal

Etymology
Derived from,.

Noun

 * 1)  aluminium

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) aluminium A silvery metal

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  (UK), or aluminum (US) (chemical element and metal, symbol Al)

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  (UK), or aluminum (US) (chemical element and metal, symbol Al)

Etymology
, from. .

Noun

 * 1) aluminum