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Materials Presentation Aim I have decided to investigate about a common well-used material in everyday life all over the world, Aluminium. Introduction. In 1808 Sir Humphrey Davy proposed the name ALUMIUM for the metal. This rather unwieldy name was soon replaced by ALUMINUM and later the word ALUMINIUM was adopted by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists in order to conform with the "ium" ending of most elements. By the mid-1800s both spellings were in use, indeed Charles Dickens commented at the time that he felt both names were too difficult for the masses to pronounce! Aluminium is the most common metallic element on earth, making up about 8% of the earth's crust, concentrated in the outer 16 km. Only oxygen and silicon are more abundant. Evolution of life and human civilisation has developed in an aluminium rich environment. It is the most widely used non-ferrous metal today. Aluminium never occurs in its...

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