In case you were wondering about aluminum ...* Aluminum is among the most abundant metals to be found in the earth's crust crust Outermost solid part of the Earth, essentially composed of a range of igneous and metamorphic rock types. In continental regions, the crust is made up chiefly of granitic rock, whereas the composition of the ocean floor corresponds mainly to that of basalt and gabbro. (8.1%) but is never found free in nature. At the time of its discovery aluminum was so rare that it was considered a precious metal. * At the Paris World Exhibition in 1855, the alloy alloy (ăl`oi, əloi`) [O. Fr.,=combine], substance with metallic properties that consists of a metal fused with one or more metals or nonmetals. went on display for the first time in history in the form of an aluminum bar and an aluminum dish. * Aluminum appeared on automobiles as early as the 1908 Bugatti Bugatti is one of the fastest marques of automobile and one of the most exclusive car producers of all time. The company is legendary for producing a few of the fastest sports cars in the world. (r), which included aluminum sand castings Casting is the process of production of objects by pouring molten material into a cavity called a mold which is the negative, or mirror image of the object, and allowing it to cool and solidify. and formed aluminum body panels that were butt-welded and hand-worked to a polished condition. |
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