History+of+Aluminum

=__History of Aluminum__= Aluminum was named for the Latin word alum. And was originally proposed by L. B. G. de Moreveau in 1761 for the name of a base metal of which only the oxide compound was shown. In 1807 Sir Humphrey Davy suggested the metal be called Aluminum though still not shown in its pure state. This name was changed several years later to Aluminium. In 1925 the American Chemical Society changed the spelling back to Aluminum, thus resulting in the present spelling in the USA of “Aluminum”. Scientists knew of an unknown metal existed in alum as early as 1787, but they did not have a way to extract it until 1825. Hans Christian Orested, a Danish chemish, was the first to produce tiny amounts of aluminum. Two years later, Friedrich Wöhler, a German chemist, developed a different way to obtain aluminum. By 1845, he was able to produce samples large enough to determine some of aluminum's basic properties. Wöhler's method was improved in 1854 by Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville, a French chemist. His method was cheaper as a result the price of aluminum dropped from $1200 to $45 pre kilogram in 1859. Then in 1888, a men named Hall-Héroult formed the Pittsburgh Reduction Company, which was later named the Aluminum Company of America, or ALCOA. When it opened, his company could produce about 25 kilograms of aluminum a day. By 1909 ALCOA, was making about 41,000 kilograms of aluminum each day. Because of the huge increase of supply, the price of aluminum dropped drastically to $0.60 per kilogram.

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