Men do the most incredible things. How did they ever discover all the processes it takes to make the finished product? Just the manufacture of the machinery to process it is mind blowing.
Whats even more mind blowing is the process to manufacture carbon ceramic or carbon fibre. Theres only 3 factories in the world that can so it. Csiro australia made a small batch but nothing on the scale as the other big 3 manufacturers.
I worked for the Reynolds/Sherwin/Glenco aluminum plant near Corpus Christi, TX. for 18 years unloading hundreds of bauxite ore carriers and can say with great certainty that aluminum is not mined. Oddly enough the plant I worked in is classified as a mine and as such its safety falls under MSHA and not OSHA. Aluminum is one of the few metals that is not found in its free form. Unlike copper or iron or gold that can be found in a nugget free form aluminum comes from bauxite via the Bayer process which produces an off white paste from the red bauxite. The paste is then fired in a kiln where it comes out as a bright white sugar like powder called alumina. This powder is then processed in huge electric furnaces where it is turned into liquid aluminum. The only point at which there is actual metallic aluminum is at the very end of the process where the alumina is smelted.
I work on aircraft, and it amazes me how strong aluminum can be with the correct engineering. Sheet aluminum is very weak and floppy, but when the same sheet is ridged, bent, or dimpled, and installed, it's profoundly stronger. Aircraft design is amazing.
2024 Copper/Aluminum alloy is very strong, usually hardened to T3 and clad with a few thousandths of pure aluminum each side, coming out with the standard 2024 T3 Alclad. It is amazing how a little geometry stiffens it
It's not a second digester. It is called a Rod Mill to grind the material into a consistent size before adding it to caustic. It is the first step for the Bauxite. I designed some for Alcoa in America.
Very well done , I worked in a cement plant quarry , processed the rock completely to finished product of bagged cement , or rail car loading . The aluminum process is very interesting , thank you
I worked in aluminum research for 20 years. The organization of video scenes and sometimes the actual script of this video is inferior to many others here on TH-cam. I'd look elsewhere if you want to be informed about aluminum production.
I dunno where that footageis from or where you got your information but that's not the Gladstone refinery, how do I know? Cause I'm an alumina producer in that refinery only semi accurate things I saw was needing bauxite and crushing it to mix with caustic but we call them mills. The processes mentioned are somewhat accurate
1 severely incorrect fact is at 3:35, it doesn't need to be transported to the refinery because the wharf is attached to the refinery only transport required is from the ship to our stockpiles by conveyor
Not to mention it seemed like they cut and pasted a lot of the clips out of order. Not sure how far in you got in the video, but I couldn't make it that far
My father worked at Reynolds Aluminum plant in Phoenix Arizona for over 30 years. He was a Forman for a long time and preferred the draw bench or the crane. I don’t know how he did it because the temperature in the top of the plant where the crane was ran about 150* Fahrenheit in the summer when Phoenix was 115* in the shade. I’m very proud that he gave my family a good life through all his hard work.
I went to school at ASU and in 1966 toured that Reynolds extrusion plant. Very interesting to watch them turn a billet of aluminum into a 20ft. long extrusion.
Technically, it was never rare - just expensive to produce in pure form. Even after figuring out how to process the metal from ore - a cheap source of electricity was needed to make aluminum available to the masses. Coal and oil made the real difference. No other metal's price is as dependent on cheap energy.
@@milwaukeebrewers6337 -- You are technically correct. Processed aluminum was only more valuable than gold in the mid-1800s. Elemental aluminum has always been very common in Earth's crustal composition. --- I stand corrected. ---
I'm a wee bit surprised that you didn't have more to say about the vast amount of electric power that's needed to convert alumina to the final-product metal. Essentially, electricity is a raw material for aluminum production -- direct-current, at 5 volts and 100 to 300 kilo-amps. Takes about 10 to 15 kilowatt-hours to produce one kg of aluminum.
Or how the electricity consumption of aluminum refineries impacts drastically on entire economies. The average taxpayer doesn't realise how much he is subsidizing aluminum production each time he purchases his domestic kilowatt-hours. They also don't mention the fluoride fall out from the smoke these refineries billow and how it poisons the surrounding environment where plants eventually fail to grow...or the intensely high temperatures that that the workers have to face and endure in the smelters and where pouring the aluminium solution. It is a wonderful metal but it comes at a very heavy price to mankind and the environment, so they prefer not talk about it. Australia exports much of its bauxite to countries in Africa for refining. Their pollution laws don't allow them to refine on home soil. Suffer the people of the emerging economies for the love of money
In this clip no mention of red mud after the Bayer process, there is a way to reduce red mud by extracting iron oxide and using less sodium hydroxide but it's not done by mining companies. Not only iron but titanium oxide is also in red mud to solve red mud if you use HCL acid to neutralise and use red mud for roof tiles .
Hey guys I'm also worked 12 of years with dubai aluminium company. Now there name EGA, Emirates global aluminium. But what I want to say about, I can say clearly 100% of my work place only. I worked there 12 years. But can't say about any other department things clearly. But with in this video, I got that all things clearly above my company. Thanks a lot. 😅😂😉🙂😎👍💪
I have personally known two different British born and raised individuals whom both pronounced aluminum (alu-min-e-um). There was also banter about various car parts names such as the trunk is termed a boot, fenders are called wings, and the engine compartment hood is a bonnet. Too many of these TH-cam channels now are reverting to creating a script and then have a computer generated voice narration.
The part I like the best is how none of the video syncs up with the commentary. They're talking about rolling and drawing and showing sawing. It's brilliant! Here I was worried about AI taking over the world too.
I just wish videos like this would show the statistics on how many people are injured or killed in the process of bring products like this to people. People take a lot for granted and don't realize some of us put our life on the line so they can enjoy certain products, roads, houses, food, ECT. All we do, for the glory of man.
It wasn't just once in my lifetime that someone argued with me about the expensive cost of recycling aluminum. In other words, the person meant that aluminum should be sent to landfills. It is very interesting that people only see the aluminum can but never consider the complicated processing involved, not to mention the impact on the environment.
Aluminium ore is Boxite. Boxite can be found in simple clay under your feet.Each clay has some percentage of Boxite.The one whay is usedhas most percentage of boxite.
I watched a documentary recently about the last Space Shuttle flight. One of the astronauts, whom I thought should have been crazy smart, kept pronouncing it "ALUNIMIN". Afterwards, I tried to tell someone about the way that he kept pronouncing it, I had tremendous trouble doing so. It took me about 15 times of saying it in order to get it WRONG(in the way that he was)!
It appears to be a fairly sophisticated AI voice following an AI-generated script (a lot of odd phrasing, word salad and unnatural rhythm) and using US spelling, - so the 'British guy' had no option but to pronounce it wrongly - so to speak.
Aluminum is so crucial in civilization development, we think of the iron age, bronze age, in the future they'll say, these people were from the aluminum age.
ALUMINIUM - A LOO MIN E UM! Sorry i'm a brit lol. In American English, this element is called aluminum, while in British English it's more commonly referred to as aluminium. The two names refer to the same chemical element. In scientific writing and academia, both aluminum and aluminium are commonly used and considered correct names.
Mining and refining aluminum is incredibly labor and resource intensive. We save a lot by recycling aluminum. Turning bauxite into metallic aluminum is practically black magic.
11:19 1m³ of AL weights about 2,7t , for it to weight 30t, you would need a piece that is more than 1mx1m and 10m long, clearly none of the slabs in video is that big
It sure is. All of that stuff has to be somewhere after all. There's really no better reason than that. That stuff is there as opposed to anywhere else.
America made aloominum practical .so they own that nomenclature and pronunciation. Not many people know that the statue in picadlly fountain is made from aluminium which cost almost as much as gold to make before it became cheaper with mass electricity
Aluminum does not occur in nature in its pure form, but in the form of bauxite ore, from which it is extracted! Bauxite mainly contains aluminum oxides, and the process of aluminum extraction involves extracting it from this ore. The most common method is the Bayer process, in which bauxite is decomposed using caustic soda (NaOH) to produce aluminum oxide (alumina). The aluminum oxide is then electrolyzed, known as the Hall-Héroult process, to obtain pure aluminum.
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Australia’s single largest electricity user is tomago . A aluminium smelter. When they go renewables a whole power station will close as the power won’t be needed .
Do you think you could put together a piece on 'Clear Aluminum'. First mentioned on 'Star Trek 4 - Whales'. I believe it is called Gorilla Glass and it might involve doping with Silicon.
It's called synthetic sapphire, They make watches and phone screen protectors from it. They use heat to make aluminum dust transparent. (I oversimplified the process for space and time.)
Thanks. I did some research maybe a decade ago. I live near to a very large silicon production facility. Many years ago I was an electronics gem and looked at the chemistry of silicon. But it is all just granite to me. 😉
AI generated script read by robot voice. At times it is just word porridge.
Thank you for saving me from AI hell
the comments in here are sus too
Dead Internet theory isn't just a theory.
Turing test much? AI's yo mamma.
Eh... humans are overrated. Beep... boop...
Men do the most incredible things. How did they ever discover all the processes it takes to make the finished product? Just the manufacture of the machinery to process it is mind blowing.
Trial and error, just like every other discovery.
And very costly too... All the hardship works bring beneficial to the world. solute.
fire
Free markets. If enough people need something, they will get it. They work out the processes 1 at a time and slowly perfect them.
Whats even more mind blowing is the process to manufacture carbon ceramic or carbon fibre. Theres only 3 factories in the world that can so it. Csiro australia made a small batch but nothing on the scale as the other big 3 manufacturers.
i worked for 6 years at one of the top 5 biggest aluminium smelter in world. this video recall my all the memories
What is the purest quality of aluminium your smelter have produced ??
I worked for the Reynolds/Sherwin/Glenco aluminum plant near Corpus Christi, TX. for 18 years unloading hundreds of bauxite ore carriers and can say with great certainty that aluminum is not mined. Oddly enough the plant I worked in is classified as a mine and as such its safety falls under MSHA and not OSHA.
Aluminum is one of the few metals that is not found in its free form. Unlike copper or iron or gold that can be found in a nugget free form aluminum comes from bauxite via the Bayer process which produces an off white paste from the red bauxite. The paste is then fired in a kiln where it comes out as a bright white sugar like powder called alumina. This powder is then processed in huge electric furnaces where it is turned into liquid aluminum. The only point at which there is actual metallic aluminum is at the very end of the process where the alumina is smelted.
I work on aircraft, and it amazes me how strong aluminum can be with the correct engineering. Sheet aluminum is very weak and floppy, but when the same sheet is ridged, bent, or dimpled, and installed, it's profoundly stronger. Aircraft design is amazing.
2024 Copper/Aluminum alloy is very strong, usually hardened to T3 and clad with a few thousandths of pure aluminum each side, coming out with the standard 2024 T3 Alclad. It is amazing how a little geometry stiffens it
Boeing has just entered the chat...
Aluminum foil.
Wow! just amazing to hear that!
It's not a second digester. It is called a Rod Mill to grind the material into a consistent size before adding it to caustic. It is the first step for the Bauxite. I designed some for Alcoa in America.
I'm from Central Arkansas and worked in the refractory field rebuilding Alcoa and Reynolds furnaces.
Pretty sure it's an AI script read out by an AI voice - Would explain why it doesn't make sense.
He is not metallurgical engineer. Mineral dressing crushing grinding floatation etc... Any way not bad video.
Maybe you should make a video. You sound like someone that would know what's actually going on.
Very inspiring and informative...Excellent Greetings from a traditional Indonesian gold prospector 🇲🇨🌼✋👍👍
All that mining, science, and technical process to cook a baked potato and throw the aluminum foil away.
I save anything aluminum and recycle it
You pronounced aluminum wrong...
Is’nt it something?
Also used in:
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@@box3976 aluminuminium ?
Very well done , I worked in a cement plant quarry , processed the rock completely to finished product of bagged cement , or rail car loading .
The aluminum process is very interesting , thank you
You worked in a quarry? Like lime stone? Or?...
Thank you. It was a difficult one to do and to not bore the living daylights out of everyone
I worked in aluminum research for 20 years. The organization of video scenes and sometimes the actual script of this video is inferior to many others here on TH-cam. I'd look elsewhere if you want to be informed about aluminum production.
@WmLatin Could you point us to one you think is accurate, or give keywords for a search?
why they fired you?
100%. This AI generated garbage is just getting worse and worse
The top of the Washington Monument it capped in aluminum because at the time of completion, aluminum was worth more than gold. True fact.
I used to haul aluminum ingets from a plant in Monette, Missouri to a plant in South Carolina so interesting to see how the ingets are made.
Ingots. Not ingets.
@@petercrossley1069lmao. What an idjet! 😂
I dunno where that footageis from or where you got your information but that's not the Gladstone refinery, how do I know? Cause I'm an alumina producer in that refinery only semi accurate things I saw was needing bauxite and crushing it to mix with caustic but we call them mills. The processes mentioned are somewhat accurate
i noticed things were odd myself. was tempted to flag this as misinformation
1 severely incorrect fact is at 3:35, it doesn't need to be transported to the refinery because the wharf is attached to the refinery only transport required is from the ship to our stockpiles by conveyor
Not to mention it seemed like they cut and pasted a lot of the clips out of order. Not sure how far in you got in the video, but I couldn't make it that far
This channel is fake. It's all AI driven.
@steelthfighter "They're some inaccuracies with clips in this video" at the end of the video
My father worked at Reynolds Aluminum plant in Phoenix Arizona for over 30 years. He was a Forman for a long time and preferred the draw bench or the crane. I don’t know how he did it because the temperature in the top of the plant where the crane was ran about 150* Fahrenheit in the summer when Phoenix was 115* in the shade. I’m very proud that he gave my family a good life through all his hard work.
I went to school at ASU and in 1966 toured that Reynolds extrusion plant. Very interesting to watch them turn a billet of aluminum into a 20ft. long extrusion.
From bombers to beer cans, amazing stuff.
Interesting fact: Aluminum used to be more rare than gold, before they knew how to process it.
Well they knew how to process it, just not in large quantities, until some someone bailey came along and figured out a system
Technically, it was never rare - just expensive to produce in pure form. Even after figuring out how to process the metal from ore - a cheap source of electricity was needed to make aluminum available to the masses. Coal and oil made the real difference. No other metal's price is as dependent on cheap energy.
Refined aluminum was rare. Elemental aluminum is the most common metallic element in the Earth's crust. Just hard to get pure.
Interesting fact: aluminum has never been rarer than gold at any time in history.
@@milwaukeebrewers6337 -- You are technically correct. Processed aluminum was
only more valuable than gold in the mid-1800s. Elemental aluminum has always been
very common in Earth's crustal composition. --- I stand corrected. ---
Im simple guy, If I dont see a moment shown on a thumbnail in a video I dislike it and never come back to that channel.
I’d be Proud of that Purchase!
I'm a wee bit surprised that you didn't have more to say about the vast amount of electric power that's needed to convert alumina to the final-product metal. Essentially, electricity is a raw material for aluminum production -- direct-current, at 5 volts and 100 to 300 kilo-amps. Takes about 10 to 15 kilowatt-hours to produce one kg of aluminum.
Don't they colloquially refer to aluminum as solidified electricity ?
Or how the electricity consumption of aluminum refineries impacts drastically on entire economies. The average taxpayer doesn't realise how much he is subsidizing aluminum production each time he purchases his domestic kilowatt-hours.
They also don't mention the fluoride fall out from the smoke these refineries billow and how it poisons the surrounding environment where plants eventually fail to grow...or the intensely high temperatures that that the workers have to face and endure in the smelters and where pouring the aluminium solution.
It is a wonderful metal but it comes at a very heavy price to mankind and the environment, so they prefer not talk about it. Australia exports much of its bauxite to countries in Africa for refining. Their pollution laws don't allow them to refine on home soil.
Suffer the people of the emerging economies for the love of money
Incredible ❤ work of science and technology 👏
I worked for Alcoa Aluminum for twenty years. Nice place to work.
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Very interesting thank you ❤
Human mind is really enormous in its capacity to bring solutions wow!
Was blown away to learn that cast iron is used to bond anode block and steel terminal!! 🤯
Good video Lord Gizmo.
T.y.
Amazing that the process of extracting and refining of aluminum was perfected by Sir Reynolds of Wrap.
thank you so much for your hard work, and generosity
Very professional and efficient process.
I will subscribe when the say aluminium correctly.
So: never!
Good progress. Slowly taking shape
In this clip no mention of red mud after the Bayer process, there is a way to reduce red mud by extracting iron oxide and using less sodium hydroxide but it's not done by mining companies. Not only iron but titanium oxide is also in red mud to solve red mud if you use HCL acid to neutralise and use red mud for roof tiles .
Hey guys I'm also worked 12 of years with dubai aluminium company. Now there name EGA, Emirates global aluminium.
But what I want to say about, I can say clearly 100% of my work place only. I worked there 12 years. But can't say about any other department things clearly.
But with in this video, I got that all things clearly above my company. Thanks a lot. 😅😂😉🙂😎👍💪
You have a British accent but mispronounce aluminium.
I have personally known two different British born and raised individuals whom both pronounced aluminum (alu-min-e-um).
There was also banter about various car parts names such as the trunk is termed a boot, fenders are called wings, and the engine compartment hood is a bonnet.
Too many of these TH-cam channels now are reverting to creating a script and then have a computer generated voice narration.
@@peterresetz1960 yes the banter is never ending :)
Pretty sure it's a computer generated voice, so maybe forgot to tick the box to say aluminium!
Where I live, aluminum is a very expensive and durable material in all fields. Why is aluminum padding so expensive? Does anyone know why
Correct. It’s Al You Min Eye Um NOT Al Loo Mim Num
We are pleased to see this vefio thanks
very amazing and complete video ❤👈
this was most interesting & more informative.
The part I like the best is how none of the video syncs up with the commentary. They're talking about rolling and drawing and showing sawing. It's brilliant! Here I was worried about AI taking over the world too.
I just wish videos like this would show the statistics on how many people are injured or killed in the process of bring products like this to people. People take a lot for granted and don't realize some of us put our life on the line so they can enjoy certain products, roads, houses, food, ECT.
All we do, for the glory of man.
Good Job.Thanks.
Love you from India
It wasn't just once in my lifetime that someone argued with me about the expensive cost of recycling aluminum. In other words, the person meant that aluminum should be sent to landfills. It is very interesting that people only see the aluminum can but never consider the complicated processing involved, not to mention the impact on the environment.
I learned something from this. However the comments here have me questioning the voice, script, and meaning behind this video.
Salamat po
All I can think about, when “ Mother Earth “ takes her revenge it’s going to be “ Apocalyptic “ for mankind!!!
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I saw the SAR train picture in your video. I have been working in SAR for 12 years now, but it is in Saudi Arabia. Cool
More aluminum than iron in the Earth's crust?! First I've heard of that assertion.
Earth's mantle is liquid iron. The crust has way more aluminum than iron.
The earth's crust is approximately 8.2% Al and 5.6% Fe.
@@d.jensen5153allegedly lmao
Aluminium ore is Boxite. Boxite can be found in simple clay under your feet.Each clay has some percentage of Boxite.The one whay is usedhas most percentage of boxite.
@@ernisj.8087 Thank you. I had no idea bauxite was so prevalent.
Min 8:00
What happened to those big carbon blocks?
I imagine they get burnt up with use. Being as they're just stockpiling the things. That makes me think they must be a wear item.
I work in mining. This is the first time ive ever seen blast holes be entirely hand loaded
Some places labor is cheap.
What rock are they mining the aluminum from ?
Bauxite
Aluminium, please, you’re English 😂
I watched a documentary recently about the last Space Shuttle flight. One of the astronauts, whom I thought should have been crazy smart, kept pronouncing it "ALUNIMIN". Afterwards, I tried to tell someone about the way that he kept pronouncing it, I had tremendous trouble doing so. It took me about 15 times of saying it in order to get it WRONG(in the way that he was)!
Hastilan ka O.a pOdt nmu,
@@jommarpino1472hahaha amo gajud jaon an sakit ng mga bright 😂
No..in did spell ALUMINUM...no ALUMINIUM..
Nice video
Fascinating...
Al YOU MIN IUM!
Yes. There is nothing worse than hearing a British person pronounce Aluminium in the American way. 😕
I disagree, there is nothing worse than hearing a British person speak
@@squamishstu jealousy is a terrible burden.
get yourself som e West Yorkshire dialect cds and learn to speak proper.
@@rosewhite--- they would still sound like Dick Van Dyke......🤣
@@theminiatureconstructionco4556 I 'd like to know who taught him that English accent!"
Photo of the video has NOTHING to do with aluminium… clickbait scam!
I was wondering what that big chunk of shiny metal was
It's called 'Thumbnail engineering '
Thanks
lol ok
100% its BS. Aluminum does not come in big chunks of solid metal like that absurd thumbnail. Reported for misinformation and clickbait.
Vielen Dank
Holy crap, the British guy pronounced it correctly!! 🤯
It appears to be a fairly sophisticated AI voice following an AI-generated script (a lot of odd phrasing, word salad and unnatural rhythm) and using US spelling, - so the 'British guy' had no option but to pronounce it wrongly - so to speak.
I love hearing Aluminum pronounced correctly
U would've had a hard time watching this then
🤣🤣👎
Never recalled seeing people Dig big chunks of aluminum out of the ground before.
Crazy how much effort goes into keeping me an alcoholic.
Good job
I used to work in a cheese mine
Aluminum is so crucial in civilization development, we think of the iron age, bronze age, in the future they'll say, these people were from the aluminum age.
but why does the process begin heating to a temperature in Celsius and end in Fahrenheit?
as the aluminium becomes liberated it has to change to freedom units.
ALUMINIUM - A LOO MIN E UM! Sorry i'm a brit lol. In American English, this element is called aluminum, while in British English it's more commonly referred to as aluminium. The two names refer to the same chemical element. In scientific writing and academia, both aluminum and aluminium are commonly used and considered correct names.
Do they found gold or another metal too?
The process is Calcination (roasting) not "calcification."
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thats a lot of work to make aluminium
Mining and refining aluminum is incredibly labor and resource intensive. We save a lot by recycling aluminum. Turning bauxite into metallic aluminum is practically black magic.
3:13 - Nope. They are locked to prevent water from getting in and unbalancing the load and thus, the ship.
Take care of the aluminum and the aluminum will take care of you.
I ask for your prayers and healing vibes as I continue to face health challenges. Thank you for your support.
What temperature melts aluminum compared to aion?
11:19 1m³ of AL weights about 2,7t , for it to weight 30t, you would need a piece that is more than 1mx1m and 10m long, clearly none of the slabs in video is that big
I would love to see a video about ENGELHARD INDUSTRYS ABOUT SILVER
All that stuff that's in the earth's core is there for a reason
For humans to deplete it
It sure is. All of that stuff has to be somewhere after all. There's really no better reason than that. That stuff is there as opposed to anywhere else.
🤦♂️ everything is somewhere for a reason.
Excelente
ALUMINIUM, nobody but Americans call it ALUMINUM.
Freeeeeeeeeedom
America made aloominum practical .so they own that nomenclature and pronunciation.
Not many people know that the statue in picadlly fountain is made from aluminium which cost almost as much as gold to make before it became cheaper with mass electricity
Aluminum does not occur in nature in its pure form, but in the form of bauxite ore, from which it is extracted!
Bauxite mainly contains aluminum oxides, and the process of aluminum extraction involves extracting it from this ore. The most common method is the Bayer process, in which bauxite is decomposed using caustic soda (NaOH) to produce aluminum oxide (alumina). The aluminum oxide is then electrolyzed, known as the Hall-Héroult process, to obtain pure aluminum.
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What is the electric bill and natural gas?
In the trillions
AL-U-MI-I-UM
I could not retell this proces...its rather complicated...( interesting vid)
Wow, die Autos Industrie bringen TT Classic
I v studied about distraction of iron and soil in claas five science class ur excellency 😢
Australia’s single largest electricity user is tomago . A aluminium smelter. When they go renewables a whole power station will close as the power won’t be needed .
Does it continue at an age 5 level?
Nice to hear a British accent that pronounces the word aluminum correctly.
Humans are so smart
That's a cyber truck.
I was wondering if i have actually had the pronunciation wrong all this years only to realize the narrator is the the one with the error😄
That thumbnail is funny though
I use lots aluminium to do stone cladding
When you think about "who was the first person to do this or that" throughout the existence of humans, it makes your mind spin out of control..
The main ore for aluminum is called Bauxite.
Do they have the same materials on the moon
Do you think you could put together a piece on 'Clear Aluminum'. First mentioned on 'Star Trek 4 - Whales'.
I believe it is called Gorilla Glass and it might involve doping with Silicon.
Gorilla glass is almost pure silicon.
So are transistors, it is the doping that makes it work. Changes the lattice.
It's called synthetic sapphire, They make watches and phone screen protectors from it. They use heat to make aluminum dust transparent. (I oversimplified the process for space and time.)
Thanks. I did some research maybe a decade ago. I live near to a very large silicon production facility. Many years ago I was an electronics gem and looked at the chemistry of silicon. But it is all just granite to me. 😉
I need this job... I need to 'splode stuff up!!!
I thought aluminum came from bauxite. Aluminum does not occur naturally; it must be refined. Cheers from eastern TN
Nature endowed the world with assorted mineral resources to assist in our survival. Therefore it behooves the world to use it
rightly or wrongly.