*skeptic

vaccine sgebtick

“Sceptic” is the correct spelling in the UK where Nature is headquartered.

I’ll accept that when they stop pronouncing aluminum as “alumimium”.

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

Regards someone from neither country

All of them? Are you sure?

On an unrelated note, apparently the Eagles “Their Greatest Hits” album was certified 38x Platinium.

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.

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.

Oh no, not all of them. I’m just too lazy to write a more accurate sentence.

-ium is a commonly used Latin suffix for elements. The name for platin cones from spanish “platina”, ‘little silver’.

The actual answer: fuck the research and talk to them like a normal person. People can tell when you are trying to manipulate them.

There’s also molybdenum, lanthanum, and tantalum. “ium” is not a hard and fast rule.