Aluminum

Aluminum Aluminum The Romans used various aluminum compounds as astringents; they called them alum. The earliest Romans and Greeks used alum as an acerbic in dyeing. Sir Humphry Davy and other chemists in the early 19th century recognized aluminum in 1825, but Friedrich Wohler had more success and is usually credited with its first isolation, in 1827. H.E. Sainte-Claire Deville first prepared inexpensive pure metal in 1854 and set about perfecting a process for its commercial production. Yet, in 1886 the process by which aluminum is produced today was discovered independently by C.M. Hall, a student at Oberlin College, and Paul Heroult, a French metallurgist. Aluminum is a silvery-white metal with a face centered cubic crystalline structure. It is a member of group IIIa of the periodic table. The symbol is Al; atomic number is 13; atomic weight is 26.98154; it’s state at room temperature, 298 K, is a solid. The electron configuration is [Ne]. 3s2.3p1. The Shell structure for aluminum is: 2.8.3. Aluminum is ductile, malleable, as well as an excellent conductor of heat and electricity. The metal is soft but becomes stronger and harder aluminum, compound, water, solid, next, treatment, state, white, oxide, metal, forms, form, first, compounds, very, sodium, silicate, sewage, process, prepared, powder, physical, paper, numerous, last, important, heat, formula, crystal, cryolite, carbon, called, anode, aluminate, alum