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   Gadolium: an alternate spelling of Gadol   
   01 Jul 19 16:58:54   
   
   Is this just a typo, or, as in the case of Aluminum versus Aluminium (or   
   Columbium   
   versus Niobium, and Wolfram versus Tungsten) did anyone ever actually propose   
   that   
   this is how the name of that particular element (a rare earth, whose chief   
   claim   
   to fame is having an accessibly low Curie temperature, so that it's easy to   
   turn   
   its ferromagnetism on and off in the lab) actually _should_ be spelled?   
      
   John Savard   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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