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Aluminum is lightweight, silvery metal, familiar to all households in the form of pots and pans, beverage cans and aluminum foil. Interestingly, non-toxic, corrosion resistant, nonmagnetic, and easy to train, cast, or machine in a variety of forms. Aluminum is the third most abundant element in the Earth's crust after oxygen and silicon, and it is the most abundant of all metals. It constitutes 8.1 percent of the crust by weight and 6.3 per cent of all the atoms in the crust. Because it is a very active metal, aluminum is never found in its metallic form. Instead, it occurs in a wide variety of minerals and earthy rock. Kaolin is particularly beautiful, white, aluminum-containing clay is used in making porcelain. Known as the aluminum in the other Anglo-Saxon element was named after the mineral alum, a salt thereof which have been known for thousands of years. Alum has been used by the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans as a mordant, a chemical that helps dyes stick to cloth.

Pure aluminum is soft and not a solid metal. During fusion with many other elements, it forms alloys with a wide range of useful properties. Aluminium alloys are used in aircraft, road signs, bridges, storage tanks, and buildings. tallest buildings in the world, the World Trade Center in New York are covered with aluminum. Aluminum is used increasingly in automobiles, because only one third heavier than steel and thus reduces fuel consumption.

In spite of the fact that aluminum is chemically very active, it does not corrode in humid air the track does. Instead, it quickly forms a thin layer of hard coating of aluminum oxide. Unlike iron oxide or rust, flaking, aluminum oxide sticks well to the metal and protects it from further oxidation. The oxide layer is so thin it is transparent to the aluminum retains its silver metallic finish. Seawater, however, damage aluminum unless it has been given an extra thick coating of oxide by the anodizing process and during the anodizing process, a piece of aluminum is oxidized in order to create a layer of aluminum oxide on its surface, which is able to make dyes, unlike the raw aluminum.

When aluminum is heated to high temperatures in vacuum, it evaporates and condenses on any cool surface in the vicinity such as glass or plastic. When evaporated on a glass, a mirror is very good. The aluminum has largely replaced the money in the production of mirrors, because it does not tarnish and turn black as the money does when exposed to impure air. Many food-packaging materials and shiny new plastic is made of paper or plastic with a coating of evaporated aluminum finish. Helium balloons silvery popular at birthday parties are made of hard plastic, covered with a thin layer of metal evaporated aluminum. Aluminum is one of the best conductors of electricity, with a conductivity of about 60 percent of that of copper. Because it is lightweight and ductile (can be fired in thin son), it is used instead of copper in almost all lines of high voltage electricity transmission in many countries.

Aluminum is used to make pots and pots of cooking because of its high thermal conductivity. It is handy as a waterproof and water-food packaging because it is very malleable, it can be pressed between rollers to steel sheet (a thin sheet) less than one thousandth of an inch thick. The claims are sometimes made that aluminum is toxic and aluminum cookware is dangerous, but no clear evidence of this belief has never been found. Much more widely used nonprescription antacids contain thousands of times more aluminum (as aluminum hydroxide) that nobody could ever get to eat food cooked in aluminum pots. Aluminum is the only light that has not experienced a physiological function in the.