If Wolverine had been American instead of Canadian, he might refer to the alloy on his bones as Adamantum.
If Wolverine had been American instead of Canadian, he might refer to the alloy on his bones as Adamantum.
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If you're referring to "aluminium", Canadians don't use that. We use "aluminum" just like in the US.
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Also both Americans and Canadians use all the other iums. It's only that one we don't do.
It knows why.
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Because they decided to name things -ium to sound alike later down the road, even if it’s etymologically incorrect.
If we used the original etymologically correct names for elements we would also say plumbum, ferrum, argentum, aurum, cuprum, stannum, and hydrargyrum for lead, iron, silver, gold, copper, tin, and mercury respectively. Which is why their element symbols are Pb, Fe, Ag, Au, Cu, Sn, and Hg.
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I’m pretty sure they say, “aluma-lum”
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Yeah, it would be adamantium-a
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