ALUMINUM University of Wisconsin–Madison（铝威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校）.pdfVIP

ALUMINUM Aluminum is the most abundant metal and the third most abundant element in the earths crust, after oxygen and silicon. It makes up about 8% by weight of the earth’s solid surface. Aluminum is too reactive chemically to occur naturally as the free metal. Instead, it is found combined in over 270 different minerals. The chief ore of aluminum is bauxite, a mixture of hydrated aluminum oxide (Al O xH O) and hydrat