| What is the first thing which comes to mind when you | | | | the name of Hans Christian Orsted produced the |
| think of aluminum? I for once think of foil and my | | | | metal in an impure form. Unfortunately, his metal was |
| mum's famous roasted pork. Yummy! This metal is an | | | | debunked by Friedrich Wohler as potassium. |
| excellent conductor for heat and electricity; it reflects | | | | Before a proper production process was invented, it |
| light and resists corrosion making it a very sturdy | | | | was extremely difficult to extract the pure metal |
| metal. Besides that, it is non-magnetic, non toxic and is | | | | therefore making it more expensive than gold once |
| able to be produced by all metal working processes, | | | | upon a time. Charles Martin Hall, an American inventor |
| making it easy and is cost efficient to produce. | | | | and engineer developed the Hall-Heroult process which |
| Combining it and any kind of metal creates a very | | | | involves the production of the metal by dissolving |
| strong alloy which therefore makes it a very worthy | | | | alumina in molten cryolite and electrolyzing it to obtain |
| metal. So, who discovered aluminum? | | | | the pure metal. Charles M. Hall was probably so |
| This wonderful, useful metal isn't something which has | | | | excited during his discovery that he even misspelled |
| been used only in the past 100 years, the ancient | | | | the word on a handbill publicizing his finding, spelling it |
| Romans and Greeks used it even back then in so | | | | "aluminum" instead of "aluminium". This method is |
| many things from structures, weapons, to daily | | | | carried out to produce this metal on a very big scale |
| household items and used its salts as dyeing agents | | | | therefore making it a more cost efficient method than |
| as well as to clean and disinfect wounds, even up until | | | | extracting from its original ore. |
| today, it is still used as an agent which stops bleeding. | | | | As we can see, the discovery of aluminum wasn't as |
| Up until 1761, that which was used to treat wounds | | | | straightforward and as direct as the discovery of the |
| was nameless and was only named alumine in 1761 by | | | | television or electricity because chemistry isn't as |
| Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, a French chemist. | | | | simple as it may seem. The perfection of the process |
| He was the first scientist to produce the very first | | | | to produce metals like this and the rest like copper is |
| systematic method of chemical nomenclature. It was | | | | an ongoing process even up until today. Scientists like |
| then in 1808 that Humphry Davy discovered the metal | | | | Charles Hall are those with devoted time who engrave |
| base of alum which he finally named it aluminum. It was | | | | history and at the same time brings around that which |
| only in 1825 when a Danish physicist and chemist by | | | | benefits all of us. |