| What is the first thing which comes to mind when you | | | | household items and used its salts as dyeing agents |
| think of aluminum? I for once think of foil and my | | | | as well as to clean and disinfect wounds, even up until |
| mum's famous roasted pork. Yummy! This metal is an | | | | today, it is still used as an agent which stops bleeding. |
| excellent conductor for heat and electricity; it reflects | | | | Up until 1761, that which was used to treat wounds |
| light and resists corrosion making it a very sturdy | | | | was nameless and was only named alumine in 1761 by |
| metal. Besides that, it is non-magnetic, non toxic and is | | | | Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, a French chemist. |
| able to be produced by all metal working processes, | | | | He was the first scientist to produce the very first |
| making it easy and is cost efficient to produce. | | | | systematic method of chemical nomenclature. It was |
| Combining it and any kind of metal creates a very | | | | then in 1808 that Humphry Davy discovered the metal |
| strong alloy which therefore makes it a very worthy | | | | base of alum which he finally named it aluminum. It was |
| metal. So, who discovered aluminum? | | | | only in 1825 when a Danish physicist and chemist by |
| This wonderful, useful metal isn't something which has | | | | the name of Hans Christian Orsted produced the |
| been used only in the past 100 years, the ancient | | | | metal in an impure form. Unfortunately, his metal was |
| Romans and Greeks used it even back then in so | | | | debunked by Friedrich Wohler as potassium. |
| many things from structures, weapons, to daily | | | | |