Aluminum

=Aluminum = =By: ANNa:) =  **Protons: ** 13
 * Atomic Number: ** 13
 * Electrons: ** 13
 * Neutrons: ** 14


 * Average Atomic Mass : ** 26.981539 amu

__Half Life__ ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Al-26 730000.0 years Al-27 Stable Al-28 2.3 minutes
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__1808__- <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-weight: normal;">Sir Humphrey Davis named and proved that Aluminum exists. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;"> ** __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**1821** __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**-** P. Berthier found a solid, reddish, clay-like material that had 52 percent Aluminum Oxide in southern France. He named i bauxite, which is now the most common ore of Aluminum. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__1845__- ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Wohler established the specific density of aluminum <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__1845__- ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Henri Sainte-Claire Deville figured out that aluminum is more expensive than gold or platinum <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__1886__- ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Paul Louis Toussaint Heroult and Charles Martin Hall discovered that if they dissolved aluminium oxide (alumina) in a bath of molten cryolite and passed a powerful electric current through it, then molten aluminium would be deposited at the bottom of the bath. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__1888__- ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> The first aluminium companies founded in France, Switzerland and the USA
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__1825__- **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Hans Christian Oersted used dilute potassium amalgam to react with anhydrous aluminium chloride, and distilling the resulting mercury away to leave a residue of slightly impure aluminium. This produced great quantities.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__1827__- **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Freidrich Wohler planned a way to make aluminum as a powder reacting potassium with anhydrous aluminium chloride

**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> Name: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Named by Sir Humphry Davy who based the name off of alumina, which was originally named after alum, a white mineral with a compound of potassium, aluminum, sulfur, and oxygen.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Uses: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Aluminum does not corrode from moist air, like most irons. This means that is does not flake off. Because of this, aluminum is used in most food packing materials. Aluminum also evaporated and covered on silver helium balloons used at parties. It is highly ductile and malleable, so it is often found in wires used to conduct electricity, and rolled into sheets that are used to pack fresh food. Mostly, aluminum is used in kitchen supplies such as pots and pans because it is a high conductor of electricity. They are also found in airplanes, soda cans, and statues.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Interesting Facts **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 98%;">Sea water corrodes a <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">luminum <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">[[image:aluminum_foil.jpg width="200" height="171" align="right"]] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">. Every minute of every day, an average of more than 123,000 aluminum cans are recycled. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to keep a 100-watt bulb burning for almost four hours or provide enough power to a television for three hours. It has a cubic crystal structure.


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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sources

http://www.alunet.net/shownews.asp?ID=490&type=3 http://www.enotes.com/earth-science/aluminum http://acswebcontent.acs.org/landmarks/landmarks/al/facts.html **