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A Brief History of Aluminium Part-2

Extracting “Silver From Clay”… In our last post we delved into the origins of aluminium. We now look at some of the defining moments of aluminium’s journey from a humble bauxite ore to cutting-edge industrial applications that have defined the course of human progress. Soon after Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted demonstrated the first physical extraction of aluminium, his work was taken forward by German chemist Friedrich Wöhler, who with...