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Oh, really?
The official IUPAC spelling is "Aluminium" - notice how there are two "I"s in there.
Since IUPAC is quite literally the international authority on chemical terminology, I'd suggest their spelling is the correct one.
If you want to spell it wrong, you do you, but don't act like it's the correct way to spell it.
The IUPAC can spell it how they like. But what is correct in language is determined by the way people use it, not whatever archaic rules your middleschool teacher told you (english) or some central authority publishes (looking at you French and Spanish).
A quick search of lemmy gives >75 pages of aluminum comments, and <35 pages of aluminium comments.
I'm sure that will change when American cultural hegemony fades, but for now, it is what it is.
If we're going by the way people use it, both are correct, because loads of people use both. As your search demonstrates. American cultural hegemony has not erased other varieties of English
It has also no erased other languages, many of which use (and pronounce) two i's.