The irony of aluminum
Aluminum cans, foil, silver paint. All these would not exist if aluminum were not present in the earth’s crust. Alternatively, they would be very expensive if Charles Martin Hall and Paul Héroult did not discover electrolysis, which is the method of extracting the metal from its ore nowadays. Fortunately, they did discover it. The Hall-Héroult process for the production of aluminum is the foremost process used in the metalworking industry today.
For the further commercial use of this abundant metal, metalworkers use the aluminum casting process to mass produce aluminum alloys. Die molding, hot isostatic pressing,
sand casting, composite mold casting, continuous mold casting, permanent mold casting, centrifugal casting, investment casting, and plaster casting; this is a list of the many ways of aluminum part castings. These metal parts have a number of uses in the aeronautic, automobile, electronic, and electrical industries. Die Cast Tooling.
Due to this silvery lightweight metal’s incredible versatility, aluminum cast parts are also found in such gadgets as transistors, computers, mobile phones, lawnmowers, cars, escalators, aircraft, conveyor belts, streetlamps, and some dental equipment. In addition, aluminum compounds are used in the production of glass, ceramics, antiperspirants, synthetic rubber, paint, paper, cosmetics, varnishes, and leather tanning.
If science and technology did not go forward as it did, aluminum would still be more expensive than gold today. The irony of aluminum is that of all the metals in the world it is the most abundant one, but it could not have been used as it is used today without a cost-efficient method of extracting the metal.
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