How It's Made: Aluminium Bike Wheels
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Conosco bene questo posto!! ;-P
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racing 0's...do want
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I cringed when she said "aluminum molecules"
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@dave2041 American here... Holy crap, you're right. I've never noticed that second 'i'! Brits always say things correctly, anyway, so I shouldn't be surprised.
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Al-u-min-i-um It's not difficult America!
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@dave2041 " When he first isolated the element in 1808, he called it 'alumium'. For some reason he thought better of that and changed it to 'aluminum' four years later. Americans dutifully adopted the new term, but many British users disliked 'aluminum' pointing out that it disrupted the -ium pattern established by sodium, calcium, and strontium, so they added a vowel and a syllable." -From Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of Nearly Everything'
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