Aluminum(Al) - Element information, Properties, Compounds and Uses

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Aluminum(Al) Element information and its uses What is aluminium? Aluminum(Al) is a fairly plentiful element on Earth, accounting for around 8.1 percent of the mass of the Earth’s crust. After oxygen (46.6% abundance) and silicon, it is the third most plentiful element on the planet’s surface (27.7% abundance.) Human civilisation has utilised aluminium goods for over 5000 years, and the Mesopotamian culture employed aluminum-rich clay to make pottery. Humphry Davy, a British chemist, recognised aluminium as a distinct element and coined it in 1809. Pure aluminium was first extracted in 1825 by a Danish physicist named Hans Christian Orsted.

Aluminum is a reactive element that is rarely encountered in nature in its pure form. Instead, aluminium gets found in nature as an alloy, a combination of metals. It generally gets spotted in the form of compounds or mineral ores like bauxite. The upcoming sections will discuss the element’s other essential attributes and applications.

Aluminum(Al) Properties Aluminium has an atomic number of 13 and an atomic mass of 26.98, making it the chemical element with the most protons per atom on the periodic table. Aluminium has a valency of 3. Hence its most frequent oxidation state is 3+ (though it may also exist in 1+ and 2+). Aluminium is a metal that may be found in a variety of shapes and sizes. Pure aluminium has a one-of-a-kind combination of physical and chemical characteristics due to its unique atomic combination. Note: Aluminum(Al) is element with symbol Al and atomic number 13.

The following table highlights some of aluminum’s most important properties: Property

Value

Melting point

660.4 degree Celsius

Density

2.7 grams per cubic centimeter

Room temperature state

Solid

Boiling point

2467 degree Celsius

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