Neodymium or Neodynium?

It's ALWAYS neodymium AFAIK. Exception: aluminium

http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic/elements/60.html

http://environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/periodic/Nd.html

 

Dan. Did you get in an argument with Bob? Bob can't spell. Trust me on this one. I've been there remember.

 

There you have it, again both versions... Call it what you want, we will know what you mean... and this would only look like a minor mistake compared to the spelling of some people...

 

"Too damn expensive" in my dictionary.

 

Neodymium is right.

 

What he said.

Neodynium is not in any of the three dictionaries I checked, so it does not even seem to be any sort of alternate spelling.

 

When is GK going to introduce their NEODYMIUM cabs?

 

Neodymium! It's the way of the future! 2x10's that weighs 20kg instead of 35Kg and still sound good - how can you argue with that?

Good move GK.

 

Neomydime...

 

Cheaper than Phisotherapy......

 

My money's on neodymium.

I'm still hoping that someday we'll all agree on the proper pronunciation of "piezo."

 

Fat chance, Terry. You should hear some of the other gems, like Epiphone and Fodera.

 

Searches........ Found it:-


http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=92433&highlight=pronounciation

 

From a marketing standpoint, I think you want to go with the "neodynium" spelling since that is the industry standard spelling (for your industry anyway). Otherwise the lesser-educated folk will think that you can't spell, and your customer support line will be filled with inquiries as to whether "neodymium" is the same as "neodynium".

Edit - Late night dyslexia. Definitely the "m" is proper, but the "n" is a surprisingly common mistake as judged by a Yahoo search.

 

Somehow I feel a song coming:

"You say neodymium, I say neodynium..."

 

The P.Audio website uses NeoduMium.
http://www.paudio-europe.com/products/db_2_12.htm

So does the B&C website.
http://www.bcspeakers.com/compproducts/HPL/HPL.htm

Eminence too.
http://editweb.iglou.com/eminence/eminence/pages/products02/neo/neomain.htm

And Fane.

http://www.fane-acoustics.com/public_html/pages/products2/nlite1.htm

M it is!

 

It's not the industry standard spelling. I can't find any evidence that it's standard spelling anywhere at all. AFAICT, it's just a mistake--a common one, but a mistake.

Dictionaries have -m-, not -n-. And if you Google on both terms, you'll find that -m- outnumbers -n- by something like 50 to 1. On MEDLINE it's more than 80 to 1. To me it's clearly a mistake resulting from false analogy to words like plutonium and titanium.