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  • What are the uses, facts, history, and properties of the element known as Aluminum?

     

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Published: 18.12.2003.
Language: English
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  • Essays 'What are the uses, facts, history, and properties of the element known as Alumin', 1.
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General Statistics
Name: Aluminum
Symbol: Al
Atomic Number: 13
Atomic Mass: 26.981539 amu
Density: 2.702 g/cm3
Melting Point: 660.37 °C
Freezing Point: 2467.0 °C
Discovery and History
In 1825, a Danish chemist named Hans Christian Oersted was the first to isolate aluminum. He performed this by using a chemical process involving potassium amalgam. The name was given from alumen, the Latin word for the mineral alum. Sometime between 1827 and 1845 Friedrick Wöhler, a German chemist, improved Oersted's process by using metallic potassium. In 1854 Henri Sainte-Claire Deville of…

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