aluminium

See also: Aluminium and alumínium

English

Chemical element
Al	Previous: magnesium (Mg)
	Next: silicon (Si)

Alternative forms

• aluminum (US, Canada, Philippines) (see #Usage notes below)

Etymology

First used in 1812 as an alternative form of aluminum which was invented in the same year., from Latin alumen, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elud-.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ăl"yo͝omĭn'ēəm, ăl"yo͝omĭn'yəm, IPA^(key): /ˌæl.(j)ʊˈmɪn.i.əm/, /ˌæl.(j)ʊˈmɪn.jəm/

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• (US) enPR: ăl"(y)o͞omĭn'ēəm, ăl"(y)o͞omĭn'yəm, IPA^(key): /ˌæl.(j)uˈmɪn.i.əm/, /ˌæl(j)uˈmɪn.j.əm/ (or like aluminum)
• (Canada) enPR: əlo͞om'ĭnəm, IPA^(key): /əˈluːmɪnəm/
• (General New Zealand) enPR: ăl"(y)əmĭn'yəm, IPA^(key): /ˌɛl.(j)ɘˈmɘn.jɘm/

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Noun

aluminium (countable and uncountable, plural aluminiums)

2. A light, silvery metal extracted from bauxite, and a chemical element (symbol Al) with an atomic number of 13.
3. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Usage notes

• For information on the origins of the two spellings, see the Wikipedia article.

Synonyms

• alumium (obsolete)
• E173 when used as a food colouring

Derived terms

Derived terms

• aluminic
• aluminiferous
• aluminio-, alumino-
• aluminium-27
• aluminium arsenide, aluminum arsenide
• aluminium borate, aluminum borate
• aluminium boron oxide, aluminum boron oxide
• aluminium brass, aluminum brass
• aluminium bromide, aluminum bromide
• aluminium bronze, aluminum bronze
• aluminium caesium tetrachloride
• aluminium carbide, aluminum carbide
• aluminium chloride, aluminum chloride
• aluminium chloride fluoride, aluminum chloride fluoride
• aluminium chloride oxide, aluminum chloride oxide
• aluminium chlorohydrate, aluminum chlorohydrate
• aluminium difluoride, aluminum difluoride
• aluminium difluoride oxide, aluminum difluoride oxide
• aluminium foil, aluminum foil
• aluminium fluoride, aluminum fluoride
• aluminium gallium arsenide, aluminum gallium arsenide
• aluminium-gallium-indium phosphide, aluminum-gallium-indium phosphide
• aluminium gallium nitride, aluminum gallium nitride
• aluminium hydride, aluminum hydride
• aluminium hydroxide, aluminum hydroxide
• aluminium iodide, aluminum iodide
• aluminium isopropoxide, aluminum isopropoxide
• aluminium monobromide, aluminum monobromide
• aluminium monochloride, aluminum monochloride
• aluminium monofluoride, aluminum monofluoride
• aluminium monofluoride monoxide
• aluminium monoiodide, aluminum monoiodide
• aluminium monophosphide, aluminum monophosphide
• aluminium monostearate, aluminum monostearate
• aluminium monotelluride, aluminum monotelluride
• aluminium monoxide, aluminum monoxide
• aluminium nitrate, aluminum nitrate

• aluminium nitride, aluminum nitride
• aluminium oxide, aluminum oxide
• aluminium oxide hydroxide, aluminum oxide hydroxide
• aluminium oxynitride, aluminum oxynitride
• aluminium phosphide, aluminum phosphide
• aluminium rubidium tetrachloride, aluminum rubidium tetrachloride
• aluminium silicon monoxide, aluminum silicon monoxide
• aluminium suboxide, aluminum suboxide
• aluminium silicate, aluminum silicate
• aluminium sulphate, aluminum sulfate
• aluminium sulphate hexadecahydrate, aluminum sulfate hexadecahydrate
• aluminium sulphide, aluminum sulfide
• aluminium tribromide, aluminum tribromide
• aluminium trichloride, aluminum trichloride
• aluminium trifluoride, aluminum trifluoride
• aluminium triiodide, aluminum triiodide
• alundum
• beryllium aluminium oxide, beryllium aluminum oxide
• dialuminium, dialuminum
• diethylaluminium chloride, diethylaluminum chloride
• diisobutylaluminium hydride, diisobutylaluminum hydride
• duralumin
• eka-aluminium, ekaaluminum
• ferro-aluminium, ferro-aluminum
• lithium aluminium hydride, lithium aluminum hydride
• magnalium
• magnesium aluminium oxide, magnesium aluminum oxide
• magnesium aluminium silicate, magnesium aluminum silicate
• monoaluminium, monoaluminum
• potassium aluminium chloride, potassium aluminum chloride
• potassium aluminium sulphate, potassium aluminum sulfate
• rubidium aluminium sulphate-dodecahydrate, rubidium aluminum sulfate-dodecahydrate
• sodium aluminium fluoride, sodium aluminum fluoride
• triethylaluminium, triethylaluminum
• trimethylaluminium, trimethyl aluminium
• yttrium aluminium garnet, yttrium aluminum garnet

Related terms

→

• algraphy
• alum
• alumane
• alumina

• aluminian
• aluminate
• aluminide
• aluminothermy

Translations

silvery metal

• Afrikaans: aluminium (af)
• Albanian: alumin (sq)
• Arabic: أَلُومِنْيُوم‎ m (ʾalūminyūm)
• Armenian: ալյումին (hy) (alyumin)
• Assamese: এলুমিনিয়াম (eluminiam)
• Asturian: aluminiu (ast)
• Azerbaijani: alüminium
• Basque: aluminioa
• Belarusian: алюмі́ній m (aljumínij)
• Bengali: অ্যালুমিনিয়াম (æyāluminiẏām)
• Breton: aluminiom m
• Bulgarian: алуми́ний (bg) m (alumínij)
• Burmese: အလူမီနီယမ် (a.luminiyam)
• Catalan: alumini (ca)
• Central Melanau: maniyem
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鋁, 铝 (leoi⁵)

  Hakka: 鋁, 铝 (lî), 阿路米 (à-lu-mí, â-lu-mí) (Taiwan)

  Mandarin: 鋁 (zh), 铝 (zh) (lǚ)

  Min Nan: 鋁, 铝 (lū, lī), a-lú-mih (Taiwan), 輕銀 (zh-min-nan), 轻银 (zh-min-nan) (khin-gîn, khin-gûn, kheng-gûn), 輕銀仔, 轻银仔 (khin-gîn-á, kheng-gîn-á), 礬素, 矾素 (hoân-sò͘)

• Chuvash: алюмини (aljumini)
• Cornish: alumynyum
• Corsican: alluminiu (co)
• Czech: hliník (cs) m
• Danish: aluminium (da) n
• Dutch: aluminium (nl) n
• Erzya: люм (ljum)
• Esperanto: aluminio (eo)
• Estonian: alumiinium (et)
• Faroese: aluminium n
• Finnish: alumiini (fi)
• French: aluminium (fr) m
• Friulian: alumini
• Galician: aluminio (gl)
• Georgian: ალუმინი (alumini)
• German: Aluminium (de) n

  Central Franconian: Allu

• Greek: αργίλιο (el) (argílio), αλουμίνιο (el) n (aloumínio)
• Haitian Creole: aliminyòm
• Hawaiian: ‘Aluminuma
• Hebrew: אלומיניום‎ (he) (alumínyum), חמרן‎ (he) m (ḥamran, ḥomran)
• Hindi: स्फटयातु (sfaṭayātu)
• Hungarian: alumínium (hu)
• Icelandic: ál (is)
• Ido: aluminio (io)
• Indonesian: aluminium (id)
• Interlingua: aluminium
• Irish: alúmanam (ga) m
• Italian: alluminio (it) m
• Japanese: アルミニウム (ja) (aruminiumu), 軽銀 (けいぎん, keigin), 礬素 (banso)
• Javanese: alumunium
• Kannada: ಅಲ್ಯೂಮಿನಿಯಮ್ (alyūminiyam)
• Kapampangan: aluminiu
• Kashubian: aluminijô
• Kazakh: алюминий (kk) (alywmïnïy)
• Khmer: អាលុយមីញ៉ូម (aaluymiiɲoom)
• Korean: 알루미늄 (ko) (alluminyum), 반소 (ko) (礬素, banso)
• Kurdish: bafûn (ku)
• Kyrgyz: алюминий (ky) (alyuminiy)
• Lao: ອາລູມິນຽມ (’ā lū mi nīam)

• Latin: aluminium (la) n
• Latvian: alumīnijs
• Lingala: aluminyu class 9a/10a
• Lithuanian: aliuminis (lt)
• Low German: aluminium
• Luxembourgish: Aluminium
• Macedonian: алуминиум (aluminium)
• Malay: aluminium
• Malayalam: അലൂമിനിയം (alūminiyaṃ)
• Maltese: aluminju
• Manx: ollymin m
• Maori: konumohe
• Marathi: ऍल्युमिनियम (ĕlyuminiyam)
• Mongolian: хөнгөн цагаан (höngön tsagaan)
• Navajo: béésh ászólí
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: aluminium (no) m, n

  Nynorsk: aluminium (nn) m, n

• Novial: aluminie
• Occitan: alumini (oc)
• Persian: آلومینیم‎ (fa) (âluminiyom)
• Polish: glin (pl) m, aluminium (pl) m
• Portuguese: alumínio (pt) m
• Quechua: ch'aqu q'illay
• Romanian: aluminiu (ro) n
• Russian: алюми́ний (ru) m (aljumínij)
• Sanskrit: स्फटयातु (sphaṭayātu)
• Saterland Frisian: aluminium
• Scottish Gaelic: alùmanam m, almain, alman (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: алуминиjум m, алуминиj m

  Roman: aluminijum m, aluminij (sh) m

• Sicilian: alluminiu (scn)
• Slovak: hliník (sk) m
• Slovene: aluminij (sl)
• Spanish: aluminio (es) m
• Swahili: alumini
• Swedish: aluminium (sv) n
• Tagalog: aluminyo (tl)
• Tajik: алюминий (tg) (alyuminiy)
• Tamil: அலூமீனியம் (alūmīṉiyam)
• Telugu: అల్యూమినియం (te) (alyūminiyaṃ)
• Thai: อะลูมิเนียม (th) (à-luu-mí-niiam), อะลูมินัม (àloomínam)
• Tibetan: ཧ་ཡང་ (ha yang)
• Turkish: alüminyum (tr)
• Turkmen: alýumin
• Ukrainian: алюмі́ній (uk) m (aljumínij)
• Uyghur: ئاليۇمىن‎ (alyumin)
• Uzbek: alyuminiy (uz)

  Cyrillic: алюминий (uz)

• Veps: alüminii
• Vietnamese: nhôm (vi)
• Volapük: lalumin (vo)
• Welsh: alwminiwm (cy)
• West Frisian: aluminium
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: אַלומיניום‎ m (aluminyum)
• Yoruba: aluminiọmu
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

See also

• andalusite
• bauxite
• Birmabright
• chiolite
• cobalt blue
• corundum

• cryolite
• emery
• mullite
• romanium
• ruby
• sapphire

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Afrikaans

Chemical element
Al	Previous: magnesium (Mg)
	Next: silikon (Si)

Noun

aluminium (uncountable)

1. aluminium

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Danish

Etymology

Created in 1812, from Latin alūmen (“alum”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aluminjɔm/, [a.luˈmiˀ.njɔm]
• Rhymes: -ɔm

Noun

aluminium n (singular definite aluminiummet, not used in plural form)

1. aluminum

Synonyms

• E173 when used as a food colouring

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Dutch

Chemical element
Al	Previous: magnesium (Mg)
	Next: silicium (Si)

Pronunciation

• aluminium

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Noun

aluminium n (uncountable)

1. aluminium

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French

aluminium

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ly.mi.njɔm/

• aluminium

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Noun

aluminium m (plural aluminiums)

1. aluminum (element)

Descendants

• Lingala: aluminyu

Further reading

• “aluminium” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Latin

Etymology

Derived from alūmen, alūminis (“alum”) +‎ -ium (chemical element suffix)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.luːˈmi.ni.um/, [a.ɫuːˈmɪ.ni.ũ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.luˈmi.ni.um/, [a.luˈmiː.ni.um]

Noun

alūminium n (genitive alūminiī); second declension

1. (New Latin) aluminium

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	alūminium	alūminia
Genitive	alūminiī	alūminiōrum
Dative	alūminiō	alūminiīs
Accusative	alūminium	alūminia
Ablative	alūminiō	alūminiīs
Vocative	alūminium	alūminia

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Malay

Chemical element
Al	Previous: magnesium (Mg)
	Next: silikon (Si)

Alternative forms

• الومينيوم‎

Etymology

From English aluminium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aluminiom/
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

aluminium (Jawi spelling الومينيوم)

1. aluminium (A silvery metal)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin alumen

Noun

aluminium m, n (definite singular aluminiumen or aluminiumet) (uncountable)

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

Derived terms

• aluminiumsfolie

References

• “aluminium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin alumen

Noun

aluminium m, n (definite singular aluminiumen or aluminiumet) (uncountable)

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

Derived terms

• aluminiumsfolie

References

• “aluminium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.luˈmʲi.ɲum/

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Noun

aluminium n

1. aluminum

Declension

Indeclinable.

Synonyms

• glin

Further reading

• aluminium in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alɵˈmiːnɪɵm/

Noun

aluminium n (uncountable)

1. aluminium

Declension

Declension of aluminium
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	aluminium	aluminiumet	—	—
Genitive	aluminiums	aluminiumets	—	—

Declension of aluminium
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	aluminium	aluminiet	—	—
Genitive	aluminiums	aluminiets	—	—

References

• aluminium in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)