What is Aluminium

Aluminium can also be called aluminum.Do you know the spelling difference?

Let us talk about the spelling first.
The name 'Aluminum' was coined by English chemist Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829), from the Latin words 'alumen' or 'alum' which literally means bitter salt, because it was recognised as a whitish mineral salt. Davy originally called it alumium (1812), but his publishers amended this to aluminum, which remains the U.S. word. British editors amended the name again to aluminium which is the modern preferred British form, to better harmonize with other element names like sodium, potassium, etc.
So we should know that the US prefer the aluminum while the British guy like the aluminium better.

Here is the definition of the Aluminium element:aluminium is a silvery-white, ductile metallic element,and it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust. In fact aluminum is the third most common element in the earth's crust but found only in combination, chiefly in bauxite making up 8% of the crust by weight. Only silicon and oxygen are more plentiful.

The Atomic Number of this element is 13 and the Element Symbol is Al and can be short of Alu.
Aluminium is a young material, and in the little more than a century since its first commercial production, it has become the world's second most-used metal after steel.