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Originally posted by Davros:
And for the edifiction of RevRuby - America is the one country in the world that is different.
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Somewhere out there, you just pissed off a Canadian. Probably more than one. I'd watch your back, if I were you...they WILL come for you.
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You would think that scientists the world over could look at a chemical element with a certain number of prtons and neutrons and decide to call it Hydrogen or Lithium or Berrylium etc and that name would be standardised the world over in The Periodic Table of Elements. In this case, all the other countries in the world called it Aluminium and the good ole US of A called it Aluminum. You would have thought the Periodic table of elements the world over would be pretty standard, but there you go.
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If I recall correctly it's called Aluminium by most major organizations in North America, scientists and producers alike, and has been since 1990. It's just that aluminium sounds funny, so nobody uses it...
By the way, as I pointed out before, it was called Aluminum BEFORE it was changed to Aluminium, so don't blame the Americans for being different, they were just early adopters. [img]tongue.gif[/img]