Aluminum is the most abundant metal in the crust of the Earth—but it doesn't exist in its pure form in nature. Bauxite ore first needs to be mined, then alumina is extracted from the bauxite, then the ...

Aluminium is the third most abundant element in the earth's crust, only oxygen and silicon are present in greater amounts. Whilst chemical compounds of aluminium have been used from earliest times, it ...

THE neutral citrate-dithionite reagent of Aguilera and Jackson 1 is used widely to remove iron oxides from soils and soil clays prior to mineralogical analysis. It is also employed in a scheme for the ...

To illustrate the aluminium life cycle, what can be more relevant than the myth of the Fountain of Youth. In this myth, old persons enter a fountain of youth and are transformed back to their young ...