Al-yu-min-i-um

[rubah]

Aluminum cans are one of the best things to recycle 1) because we go through so many of them and 2) you can make a lot of money off of them because you use so many!

I remember one vivid time in my youth when my dad and I took several trash bags full of cans to one of those green aluminum eating monsters and we spent maybe half an hour feeding cans into it and we came out of it with tens of dollars, somewhere between 13-30 I think?

My family has always had a special trashcan in the laundry room (which is really my mom's sitting room) for cans and another one for stuff I'm not really sure of the reasoning of, I guess it was originally things they didn't want to burn because the metal would wind up in our cattle's stomachs, but we stopped burning our trash a couple of years ago and now we don't have cattle. It usually winds up full of cigarette ashes and butts, vegetable cans, and dryer lint (laundry room, remember?). It's had a distinctive smell ever since I can remember, mostly of stale cigarettes.

But yeah, we used to drink a lot of cokes (my brother was a big mt. dew fanatic and my sister loved dr. pepper and I'd drink almost anything also my dad, and my mom partook of many a diet coke) but now my siblings are gone, my dad and I pretty much swore off cokes (well until I came to college!) so it's mostly diet cokes that goes in there, and there's fewer bags each fortnight, but we still ship them off to my granny sue who is retired and hmm, impoverished so they're a small supplement.

But I just can't understand why you'd just throw good aluminum in the trash. I guess it's just how I was raised.

[escobert]

I don't drink soda so I don't drink much but beer out of a can

[Roogle]

My mother encouraged a habit of recycling that I wanted to take up by collecting our aluminum cans. The problem was that she wanted me to use our sledgehammer to crush the cans so that they took up the least amount of space in the bag. This created a problem because it required a lot of effort to crush hundreds of cans with a sledgehammer, and, eventually, I lost interest after a big payout.

I will probably force that household to recycle properly and effectively without wasting effort on menial tasks when I go back there to visit and take over.

[rubah]

It's easier to just step on them or use your hands, roo

[escobert]

Oh and yeah I've always recycled.

[Heath]

My family never recycled until our rubbish bin deliveries was cut down from once a week to once a fortnight and were effectively forced to recycle. Now though we recycle a significant proportion of our rubbish and have more than halved what we throw out as 'rubbish' because we recycle a lot of aluminium, tin, paper, glass, etc.

[Aerith's Knight]

not even worth recycling.. theres still lots of aluminium ore

[Peegee]

wacky Americanos. It's pronounced Ah da man tee um.

[No.78]

I thought this thread was gonna be about how to pronounce it.

I get annoyed when people say aloominum.

[Mirage]

Aluminium, not aluminum. And yes, I recycle soda cans and bottles. It's like an emergency backup. When I run out of cash, I've always got like 100 cans or bottles lying around.

[Peegee]

I thought this thread was gonna be about how to pronounce it.

I get annoyed when people say aloominum.

In the UK and other countries using British spelling, only aluminium is used. In the United States, the spelling aluminium is largely unknown, and the spelling aluminum predominates.[12][13] The Canadian Oxford Dictionary prefers aluminum, whereas the Australian Macquarie Dictionary prefers aluminium. The spelling in virtually all other languages is analogous to the -ium ending.

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) adopted aluminium as the standard international name for the element in 1990, but three years later recognized aluminum as an acceptable variant. Hence their periodic table includes both, but places aluminium first.[14] IUPAC officially prefers the use of aluminium in its internal publications, although several IUPAC publications use the spelling aluminum.[15]

Tomato, Tomahto. Color, Colour.

[Mirage]

It's not the same difference as colour/color. These two are pronounced much the same way, while "aluminum" leaves out an entire syllable.

[Sergeant Hartman]

We recycle stuff at my house, don't get any money for it though :/

[BG-57]

Being American I pronounce it Aluminum, but as a chemist I like the spelling Aluminium better. It fits in with a lot of the other elements that end in -ium. I first encountered that spelling/pronunciation when I was in the lower sixth in a British school in Spain.

Whatever it's called, I recycle it.

Did IUPAC have a ruling on Sulfur/Sulphur?

[Aerith's Knight]

just say Al and S