What is aluminum made from?

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What is aluminum made from?

Answer 1

It's produced by smelting and refining Bauxite Ore.

Answer 2

As an element aluminum is extracted from Bauxite.

Aluminum is most common in other forms from which it cannot be economically extracted. This means that much of the aluminum that exists in the earths crust can not be used.

Iron is the forth most common element in the earths crust and aluminum is the 3rd most common but iron is more easily extracted and is more common in ore from which it can be extracted so it is less expensive. Iron is the most common element in the earths core.

There is a lot of information in the link below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#N...

Elements like aluminium are created by a process called nucleosynthesis that takes place in massive stars. Our sun is a third generation star. This means the dust that became our solar system existed in two other stars before our solar system came to be.

http://library.thinkquest.org/17940/text...

http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExp...

Answer 3

Aluminium is the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust, and the third most abundant element therein, after oxygen and silicon. It makes up about 8% by weight of the Earth’s solid surface. Aluminium is too reactive chemically to occur in nature as the free metal. Instead, it is found combined in over 270 different minerals.The chief source of aluminium is bauxite ore.

Answer 4

Aluminum is an element.

It exsist, not made from any components or such.

It's one of the biggest minerals in the earths crusts.

Answer 5

aluminium is an element. it isn't made from anything...

Aluminium ore is what it is found in

Answer 6

It's an element, so it's made of electrons, protons, and neutrons.

Answer 7

Aluminium is a pure element, so it's not really "made" from anything. It's extracted from a mineral ore called Bauxite, which is a type of rock that contains aluminium compounds. The biggest reserves of Bauxite are in Australia, China and Brazil, but it's found in many countries. The aluminium in Bauxite is in the form of Al(OH)3 and AlO(OH), which are ionic solids (like salt). The rock has to be molten, then electricity is passed through the molten rock to form aluminium metal.