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) IPA^(key): /əˈluːmɪnəm/

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• Audio (AUS)

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Noun

aluminium (countable and uncountable, plural aluminiums)

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

Related terms

• algraphy
• alum
• alumane
• alumina

• aluminian
• aluminate
• aluminide
• aluminothermy

Translations

silvery metal

• Afrikaans: aluminium
• 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)
• 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)
• Latin: aluminium (la) n
• Latvian: alumīnijs
• 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
• 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 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)
• Turkish: alüminyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: алюмі́ній (uk) m (aljumínij)
• Uzbek: alyuminiy (uz)

  Cyrillic: алюминий (uz)

• Veps: alüminii
• Vietnamese: nhôm (vi)
• Volapük: lalumin (vo)
• Welsh: alwminiwm (cy)
• West Frisian: aluminium
• Yiddish: אַלומיניום‎‎ m (aluminyum)
• Yoruba: aluminiọmu

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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• Audio

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Noun

aluminium m (plural aluminiums)

1. aluminum (element)

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		uncountable
Neuter	indefinite	definite
nominative	aluminium	aluminiumet
genitive	aluminiums	aluminiumets

Declension of aluminium

	uncountable		uncountable
Neuter	indefinite	definite
nominative	aluminium	aluminiet
genitive	aluminiums	aluminiets

References

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