Aluminum
AluminumAluminum is a very common metal, still used widely today. It was first discovered by Hans Christian Oersted at Denmark in 1825. Oersted reacted aluminum chloride with potassium amalgam. Heating these two substances under reduced pressure caused the mercury to boil away, leaving aluminum metal as the final solution.
Ancient Greeks and Romans used it as an astringent for medicine and also for the dying process. Aluminum went through many different name changes. In 1761, a man named de Morveau proposed the name alumine. In 1807, Davy offered the name alumium for the metal, not known at that time, and later agreed to change it to aluminium. Aluminium is now the accepted standard for...
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