Chem. Obs. The name first suggested by Davy for the metal which he finally called ALUMINUM, a name eventually further changed to ALUMINIUM.
1808. Sir H. Davy, in Phil. Trans., XCVIII. 353. Had I been so fortunate as … to have procured the metallic substances I was in search of, I should have proposed for them the names of silicium, alumium, zirconium, and glucium.
1815. W. Phillips, Outl. Min. & Geol. (ed. 3), 22. Alumine consists of Oxygen united with a base Alumium the nature of which has not been completely ascertained.
1854. Pereira, Mat. Med. (ed. 4), I. 660 (L.). Aluminum, Aluminium, or Alumium (Al=14), is the metallic base of the earth alumina.
