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Why do the #British call it #aluminium and the Americans #aluminum? The story of the discovery of the third most abundant element on the earth's crust #Science #metals

Aluminium, despite being the third most abundant element on the earth’s crust after oxygen and silicon, and the second most used metal after iron, is, curiously, one of the more recently discovered metals. Chemically bound to other ores, particularly bauxite, it is not found in its purest form naturally. However, alums, hydrated salts containing aluminium and sulphur, have been used for almost…