aluminium

See also: Aluminium and alumínium

English

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

Alternative forms

• aluminum (US, Canada) (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

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /əˈluːmɪnəm/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ăl"yo͝omĭn'ēəm, ăl"yo͝omĭn'yəm, IPA^(key): /ˌæl.jʊˈmɪn.i.əm/, /ˌæl.jʊˈmɪn.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)

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Noun

aluminium (uncountable)

Wikipedia

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

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: ألومنيوم m (ʾalumínyum)
• Armenian: ալյումին (alyumin)
• Asturian: aluminiu (ast)
• Azeri: alüminium
• Basque: aluminioa
• Belarusian: алюмiнiй m (aljumínij)
• Bengali: অ্যালুমিনিয়াম (æyāluminiẏām)
• Breton: aluminiom m
• Bulgarian: алуминий (bg) m (alumínij)
• Catalan: alumini (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鋁 (zh), 铝 (zh) (lǚ)

  Min Nan: lī lū

• Chuvash: алюмини (aljumini)
• Cornish: alumynyum
• Corsican: alluminiu
• Czech: hliník (cs) m
• Danish: aluminium (da)
• Dutch: aluminium (nl) n
• Erzya: люм (ljum)
• Esperanto: aluminio (eo)
• Estonian: alumiinium
• Faroese: aluminium
• Finnish: alumiini (fi)
• French: aluminium (fr) m
• Friulian: alumini
• Galician: aluminio (gl)
• Georgian: ალუმინი (alumini)
• German: Aluminium (de) n
• Greek: αργίλιο (el) (argílio), αλουμίνιο (el) n (aloumínio)
• Haitian Creole: aliminyòm
• Hawaiian: ‘Aluminuma
• Hebrew: אלומיניום (he) (alumínyum), חמרן m (ḥamran, ḥomran)
• Hindi: स्फटयातु (sfaṭayātu)
• Hungarian: alumínium (hu)
• Icelandic: ál (is)
• Ido: aluminio (io)
• Indonesian: aluminium (id)
• Interlingua: aluminium
• Irish: alúmanam (ga)
• Italian: alluminio (it) m
• Japanese: アルミニウム (ja) (aruminiumu)
• Javanese: alumunium
• Kannada: ಅಲ್ಯೂಮಿನಿಯಮ್ (alyūminiyam)
• Kapampangan: aluminiu
• Kashubian: aluminijô
• Kazakh: алюминий (kk) (alyumïnïy)
• Khmer: អាលុយមីញ៉ូម (aaluymiiɲoom)
• Korean: 알루미늄 (ko) (alluminyum), 반소 (ko) (礬素, banso)
• Kurdish: bafûn (ku)

• Kölsch: Allu
• Latin: aluminium (la) n
• Latvian: alumīnijs
• Lithuanian: aliuminis (lt)
• Lojban: jinmrmalume
• Low German: aluminium
• Luxembourgish: Aluminium
• Macedonian: алуминиум (alumínium)
• Malay: aluminium
• Malayalam: അലൂമിനിയം (alūminiyaṁ)
• Maltese: aluminju
• Manx: ollymin m
• Marathi: ऍल्युमिनियम (ĕlyuminiyam)
• Mongolian: хөнгөн (höngön), хөнгөн цагааны (höngön tsagaany)
• Navajo: béésh ászólí
• Norwegian: aluminium (no)

  Norwegian Nynorsk: aluminium (nn)

• 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: алюминий (ru) m (aljumínij)
• Sanskrit: स्फटयातु (sfaṭayātu)
• Saterland Frisian: aluminium
• Scottish Gaelic: alùmanam, almain
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: алуминиjум m, алуминиj m

  Roman: aluminijum m, aluminij m

• Sicilian: alluminiu (scn)
• Slovak: hliník
• Slovene: aluminij (sl)
• Spanish: aluminio (es) m
• Swahili: alumini
• Swedish: aluminium (sv) n
• Tajik: алюминий (alyuminiy)
• Tamil: அலூமீனியம் (alūmīniyam)
• Telugu: అల్యూమినియం (te) (alyūminiyaṁ)
• Thai: อะลูมิเนียม (àloomíniam), อะลูมินัม (àloomínam)
• Turkish: alüminyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: алюмiнiй m (aljumínij)
• Uzbek: alyuminiy (uz)

  Cyrillic: алюминий

• Veps: alüminii
• Vietnamese: nhốm, nhôm (vi)
• Volapük: lalumin (vo)
• Welsh: alwminiwm (cy)
• West Frisian: aluminium
• 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

Wikipedia ^da

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): aluminjɔm
• 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

Wikipedia ^nl

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

Wikipedia ^fr

aluminium

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ly.mi.njɔm/

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Noun

aluminium m

1. aluminum (element)

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Latin

Wikipedia ^la

Noun

alūminium n (genitive alūminiī); second declension

1. aluminium

Inflection

Second declension neuter.

Number	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

Wikipedia ^ms

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

Etymology

From English aluminium.

Alternative forms

• الومينيوم

Pronunciation

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

Noun

aluminium (Jawi spelling الومينيوم)

1. aluminium (A silvery metal)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [alũˈmʲĩɲũm]

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Noun

aluminium n

1. aluminum

Declension

Indeclinable.

Synonyms

• glin

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Swedish

Wikipedia ^sv

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)