Because the English have an "I" for detail?

Aluminium. That is the correct spelling, so it should be the correct pronunciation. http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/text/Al/key.html

Aluminium. That is the correct spelling.

Aluminium is the proper spelling of the word in the english language.

1) In French and German, we only use the spelling Aluminium. But "In the United States, the spelling aluminium is largely unknown, and the spelling aluminum predominates" (Wikipedia) 2) "Derived from the Latin ALUMEN for ALUM (Potassium aluminium sulphate). In 1761 French Chemist Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau proposed that ALUMINE for the base material of ALUM. De Morveau was instrumental in setting up a standardised system for chemical nomenclature and often collaborated with Antoine Lavoisier, who in 1787, suggested that ALUMINE was the oxide of a previously undiscovered metal. In 1808 Sir Humphrey Davy proposed the name ALUMIUM for the metal. This rather unwieldy name was soon replaced by ALUMINUM and later the word ALUMINIUM was adopted by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists in order to conform with the "ium" ending of most elements. By the mid-1800s both spellings were in use, indeed Charles Dickens commented at the time that he felt both names were too difficult for the masses to pronounce! The patents of both Hall and Héroult refer to ALUMINIUM and the company Hall helped set up was originally called the Pittsburgh ALUMINIUM Company. It was shortly renamed the Pittsburgh Reduction Company and in the USA the metal gradually began to be known only as ALUMINUM (in 1907 Hall's company finally became the ALUMINUM Company of America). In 1925 the American Chemical Society decided to use the name ALUMINUM in their official publications. Most of the world have kept the I in ALUMINIUM but it is interesting to note that the name for the metal's oxide, ALUMINA has been universally accepted over its more convoluted alternatives, ALUMINE and ALUMINIA. Both ALUMINIUM and ALUMINUM have an equal claim to etymological and historical justification, and it seems that the difference in both pronunciation and spelling is likely to stay with us for the foreseeable future!" Source: http://www.world-aluminium.org/history/language.html 3) Further information on this controversy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Spelling

I actually missed a question in 7th grade science because I spelled it "aluminium," just like the British teacher pronounced it.

I give up on trying to find out which I should use. No one will take a solid stance ! Can a scientist that is not from America or England settle this question once and for all? Please hahaha!