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wrote:
All my life I have wondered this.
Why is silver paint called aluminum paint?
It can be painted on steel, wood, plastic, brass, and darn near
anything else (including aluminum), so why that name?

Marketing purposes. In consumer acceptance tests, "Aluminum" beat out the
runner-up, "Squirrel" by, I believe, 2-3 points. "Phlegm" was a distant
third.