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[Grendus]

Alternatively, if you feel up to a military challenge, you can download Dig Deeper which has both. I routinely deck my soldiers out in Mithril or Deep Steel (Mithril/Steel alloy), it's great.

[G-Flex]

I believe it was possible to extract from ores at the time, but exceedingly expensive. It was a growing field for quite a long time, and it took quite a while for the price of it to reach what it's like today.


Interestingly, "aluminum" is actually a (slightly?) older spelling than "aluminium". A lot of people don't realize this. Not like that has any bearing on current spellings, of course.

[LegoLord]

Actually, as far as I know the US is the only place where it's aluminum.  Everywhere else (that speaks English?) says aluminium.

Adamantium is fictional and adamantine exists IRL 

What'choo talkn' 'bout, Lawec?

[G-Flex]

Actually, as far as I know the US is the only place where it's aluminum.  Everywhere else (that speaks English?) says aluminium.

I never said otherwise. However, I believe Canadians tend to say "aluminum" as well, although they may say both. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry allows either as standard. Humphry Davy, the first man to isolate it electrolytically (maybe?), being the guy who named it, coined the term "aluminum", but then soon after some anonymous guy wrote to a journal and suggested "aluminium" instead, probably because more elements end in "-ium", although there are a few ending in "-um" anyway, so it wasn't really a huge concern.

Basically, who cares. It's "aluminum" in the US and to some degree in Canada, and "aluminium" in most other places, and neither spelling is inherently better or worse. Toady lives in the US, so the spelling reflects that, and the name is easily modded.

[Blargityblarg]

I thought it was originally 'Alumium', and then because that was hard to say, 'Aluminum', and finally outside of North America, 'Aluminium' to standardise the '-ium' ending?

Lawec might be referring to adamantine being an archaic term for diamond, or rather and adjective describing hardness derived from diamond. Or both. I really have no idea anymore.

[G-Flex]

Davy first mentioned he would name it "alumium" but settled on "aluminum" later on.

Like I said, the "-ium" isn't as standardized as you might think. See: Molybdenum, Platinum, Tantalum, Lanthanum, and some of the Latin words for certain elements (like "Aurum").

I think "Aluminium" was used for some time within the US as well.

[Lawec]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamantine_Spar
Adamantine! It's a mineral

[Quantum Toast]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamantine_Spar
Adamantine! It's a mineral

But brown instead of blue, apparently.