Aluminum is one of our most widely-used metals, found in everything from beer cans to airplane parts. However, the lightweight metal doesn’t occur naturally, and producing it is a complex process. The ...

Metals may seem tough, but given enough time even plain old air can be their undoing. Oxygen reacts with it to form metal oxides like rust, but now it turns out a metal oxide may come to the rescue.

THE formation of boehmite on anodized and non-anodized aluminium surfaces by boiling-water treatment has been discussed by Hart 1. He found by electron diffraction study of ammonium borate anodic ...

“This is the greatest contribution to aluminum metallurgy since the Hall process of 1886—if it is cheap as the inventor says.” So commented the Aluminum Co. of America on a new process for extracting ...

Aluminium is more reactive than carbon so it must be extracted from its compounds using electrolysis. Even though aluminium is more abundant than iron in the Earth's crust, aluminium is more expensive ...