Aluminum

Oh yeah, that is why we have to put special ointment on our aluminum conductor terminations.

Bare aluminium immediately oxides on exposure to air, forming a thin layer of aluminium oxide.

Note the spelling, "Aluminum" in US, "Aluminium" in rest of world?

Glenn.

Maybe India is about to embark on a few decades of installing aluminum wiring in homes and office buildings.

Note that Aluminum was the original spelling, and was changed to Aluminium in England at a later date. The same goes for color and colour.

I don't like aluminum. Back in the 80's we had to run all aluminum rigid conduits at a hanger at Kaparuk Oil field on the North Slope in Alaska because it was an Arco job and Arco owned an aluminum company. At the end of the day I had aluminum all over me. It is a dark looking stuff and it made my skin break out into rashes. Also, when I tried to install a long straight run the pipe kept bowing on me. I would have it straight as an arrow and I swear by the next day it was bowing all over the place because of the expansion problems. The only way to make it run straight is to not tighten the couplings. It doesn't thread good in the threading machine either. Also, when we went into old jobs where the aluminum was installed in later years the conduit was bent all over the place because of people stepping on it. It is too soft. Aluminum wire can't be buried in the ground in USE cable in the northern part of Alaska because the frost will cause it to go open and at terminations we have cold flow problems because of the wide variations in temperature from -55 to +90 in any one year. So that is what I have to say about aluminum.

Try containing lye solution in an aluminum can,

Bill

Or even cola if there is a scratch in the lining.

Did you know that Buddy Ebsen (Jed Clampett) was supposed to play the 'Tin Man' in the 'Wizard of OZ'? The 'Tin Man' makeup was made with aluminum dust, and nearly killed him. They had to replace him, because he was hospitalized for a long time.

There is evidence, I believe, that it a cause of Altziemers

I believe that theory was debunked a decade or so ago.

"Present-day spelling

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.[26][27] 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. [28] IUPAC officially prefers the use of Aluminium in its internal publications, although several IUPAC publications use the spelling aluminum.[29]"

I'm in "British English" country, so I'll stick to Aluminium. The term Aluminum is virtually unknown in Australia, although we are aware that's how the yanks spell it. The same applies to colour vs color, theatre vs theater, organisation vs organization, etc etc. We are bombarded by both UK and USA television shows and culture, so we learn to cope with the differences.

Glenn.

A Canadian who moved to the USA was heard to complain about the US spelling of "colour". It takes longer to type in the USA, because it becomes C-O-L-O-U-backspace-R.

:-)

Dave

Our manufacturing division in Great Britain was ready to place a large order for aluminium, but I guess you folks don't stock that. ;-)

| Our manufacturing division in Great Britain was ready to place a large | order for aluminium, but I guess you folks don't stock that. ;-)

That stuff seems to be so hard to find. They would have to melt down what they have now and add some more i's to it. ;-)