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Aluminum was discovered in the early 1800's and mid-century, crude methods were available to remove it. Aluminum, a silvery-white metallic element, was discovered in 1825 by Danish chemist Hans Christian Orsted. Is the most abundant metal in Earth's crust, comprising 8.3 percent of the total weight of the crust. Its content in sea water, however, is as low as 0.01 grams per tonne (0.01 parts per million). The key isotope aluminum is Al-27 with a natural abundance of 100 percent, but seven other isotopes are known, one of which is used as a radioactive tracer (Al-26). Aluminum is not found in its metallic state in nature, but is generally as silicate, oxide, or hydrated oxide (Bauxite). Mineral extraction is difficult and costly aluminum is therefore commonly recycled, recycling energy is only 5 percent of energy needed to extract the metal.
Aluminum is lightweight, flexible, and easily machined. It is protected by an oxide film to react with air and water, making it resistant to corrosion. It is one of the lightest metals, but it is quite difficult and more useful in metallurgy, Transport window (eg, aircraft, automobiles, rail cars and ships), and architecture (eg, frames and decorative trim.) It is also used in the manufacture of kitchen equipment, because it is a good conductor of heat. Aluminium foil as thin as 0.18 mm are a household convenience, the protection of food spoilage and provide privacy. aluminum beverage cans are widely manufactured production. The average human body contains about 35 milligrams of aluminum but no known biological function has been set for it is, however, it is suspected that a factor in developing Alzheimer's disease.
Although aluminum is widely used as structural material, it was not always the case. While common in Earth's crust, aluminum is difficult to extract from its ores, as it is a very metal reagent. Before 1886, aluminum was a semiprecious metal comparable in price to silver. Although the element was discovered in 1825 and had been investigated by many scientists Europeans, the only way to prepare the metal complex and difficult process that culminated in reacting metallic sodium with aluminum chloride. The rarity and importance of aluminum is from the fact that in 1852, to 545 dollars a pound, which was a precious metal that only the truly rich could afford. Napoleon III had a rattle and other small objects made of aluminum. The metal was so rare and unique that in 1855 small bars of aluminum were exhibited at the Paris Exposition with the crown jewels France.
During construction of the Washington Monument, aluminum, was released in a nine-inch high pyramid that would be placed on the obelisk as ornament and lightning. Alcoa made before, without the Hall process, the aluminum cap is $ 225, which would be about $ 4,000 today. Weighing 100 grams, which gives $ 640 a pound. When the Washington Monument was completed in 1884, the pyramid of this expensive aluminum are placed as ornaments on the top. Before installation of the lid was on display on the floor at Tiffany's in New York, where guests were invited to "go over the top of Washington Monument. "He was also the tip of the lightning rod system, a practical application of high electrical conductivity and corrosion resistance of this remarkable metal. However, economic methods were necessary to wrest its abundant mineral aluminum.
Interestingly two men, Frank Jewett and Charles Hall, with a common interest in the aluminum metal gathered on the campus of Oberlin College near Cleveland, Ohio, in 1880. Frank Jewett was a world traveler and as educated in the science of chemistry as any American academic of his time. Charles Hall was a local youth, self-educated in science, which hoped to become an inventor and successful businessman. His partnership in the coming years and five and a half led to the discovery of a practical process for the manufacture of aluminum from its ore by an electric current. Within three years, Hall was the production of pure aluminum metal on an industrial scale. Aluminum, curiosity, became in a widely used material, and the young got his goal of a financially successful career in technology and industry.
Frank Fanning Jewett received his undergraduate education and did graduate work in chemistry and mineralogy at Yale University. From 1873 to 1875, he continued his studies in chemistry at the University of Gottingen in Germany. There he became well acquainted with the current European science and became interested in the promise of aluminum. He met with Professor Friedrich Wohler, aluminum that had been isolated as a metal in 1827 following the example of HC Oersted in 1825. Before Jewett returned to America in 1875 to become assistant Oliver Wolcott private Gibbs of Harvard University, obtained a sample of aluminum metal. In 1876, he was nominated by the president of Yale to teach science at Tokyo Imperial University, where was one of a handful of Westerners. In 1880 at the age of 36 years, Jewett became professor of chemistry and mineralogy at Oberlin College.
Charles Martin Hall was born in 1863 as the third son and sixth child of a Congregational minister. He was a studious child who first learned chemistry as a serious young man in town Oberlin, reading a textbook, 1840, found on the shelves of his study desk minister father. Also made in the experiments at home, the beginning of lifelong enthusiasm for experimental work. An avid reader in many fields, who eagerly invention popular literature in Scientific American.
Hall was intrigued by the romance and aluminum when, as a freshman 16 years of age at Oberlin College in the fall of 1880, went to the lab chemistry to get some items for your home lab. There he met Professor Jewett Hall who happened to have a class that showed Frank Fanning Jewett A sample of the precious metals to students. After a stirring lecture on the subject, ended with, "expect fame and fortune of the man who is a cheap way to separate the metal from bauxite ore. Any person who discovers a process by which aluminum can be done on a commercial scale that not only bless humanity, but also make a fortune for himself. "Inspired by such a win-win challenge, Hall reportedly said:" I'm going for that metal. "
After graduating from Oberlin in June 1885, Hall continued his work in a wooden shed behind the family home. The woodshed was really a summer kitchen attached to the back of the house of Hall. There, from a blacksmith's forge and galvanic cells constructed from fruit jars, began investigating the mixtures of aluminum and fluorine-containing minerals. Hall thought that if I could find a liquid-free water to dissolve the aluminum oxide, which might be able to separate the metal by electrolysis. February 10, 1886 found that cryolite (a fluoride sodium aluminum) in its molten state will dissolve the aluminum oxide. February 16 passing an electric current through the plate, but aluminum has been found. Hall thought the problem was the clay pot, not the process. Along with the help of his sister (a student at Oberlin) and guidance continues to Jewett, Hall discovered that the alumina (Al2O3) and the mineral cryolite (Na3AlF6) fuse well and do at a relatively low temperature (about 1,000 ° C [1832 ° F]) compared with pure alumina. Crucible lined with carbon and tried again. A direct electrical current was passed through the cryolite-alumina melt solution for several hours. After months of work, Hall and his sister broke the graphite crucible February 23, 1886, to find tiny globules of aluminum metal plate. Hall was quick to show Jewett, who confirmed his discovery. It was February 23, 1886. Hall was only 22 years old. The blood of this discovery are known as "crown jewels" of Alcoa and the same samples are retained by Alcoa and the company "Crown Jewels."
Hall's next move in their quest to "bless humanity and make a Fortunately for himself, "was for aluminum production commercially viable and here began the history of Alcoa with Charles Martin Hall. Hall knew if I could find this process, which could make it an industry. In fact Charles was interested in finding a way to make aluminum throughout his college days. Charles's sister Julia Brainerd Hall became his close associate and adviser. Some have said that Julia may have had more of the hand in the invention that the record reveals. It is true that served as his assistant and was an excellent sounding board as she had also studied chemistry at Oberlin, which was quite unusual for a woman day. His biggest contribution may be that she was responsible for the meticulous records of experiments of Hall. These records were used later to prove the priority Hall's invention, and without them there would have been no patent, and Alcoa not.
Charles began to seek financial support for the commercialization of its process. His older brother George, who lived in New England, suggested I come to Boston. Nothing develops. His precious blood were seen as laboratory curiosities. After return to Oberlin, Carlos assistance requested by Alfred and Eugene Cowles, Cowles and cast aluminum electric company, making alloys. They were already running a successful business have done much to develop the electric furnace. The Cowles brothers Carlos made an offer which would work in the process for them for 90 days with option to buy and process patent and a partner Carlos. Not interested, so the Cowles brothers not to exercise its option and at the end of six months, Carlos again to where it started.
Through its association with the Cowles brothers, met Romaine C. Hall Cole, a young entrepreneur who recognized the value of the invention Hall and recommended contact Captain Alfred E. Hunt, one of the metal around the steel industry, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Cole knew hunting through experimental work on aluminum that Cole had made by Hunt and Clapp materials testing business. Hunt was so impressed with the Hall process called a preliminary meeting of five of his colleagues on 31 July 1888. The meeting was held at Hunt's house in Pittsburgh and the first task was to select a name for the new company. The first name chosen for the business of Pittsburgh was the aluminum company.
Hunt was a native of Boston and was only 33 years old at the time. The Hunt also met other relatively young, all under 35 years of age and all those associated with steel industry. In addition to partner Clapp George H. Hunt, the others were Howard Lash, president of the Carbon Steel Company. Hunsiker Millard, manager of sales of carbon steel. Robert Scott, superintendent of the Factory Street 33 of the Carnegie Steel, and WS example, the chief chemist of Pittsburgh Hunt and Clapp Laboratory tests. August 8, 1888 agreed to put up $ 20,000, $ 5,000 at a time, on call for build a pilot plant was built in Smallman Street. From then left the game materials testing business in the hands of their partner Clapp and spent the rest of his career with Alcoa.
On October 1, 1888, the company was founded as the Pittsburgh Reduction Company. The name proved a happy choice, since it is often confused with other similarly titled concern garbage collection. In 1907 the name was changed to Aluminum Company of America, which remained until 1999, when Alcoa officially dropped. The first employee of the new Alcoa joined the band of entrepreneurs as a young man and spent most of the rest of his life to the company. Arthur Vining Davis came to Pittsburgh in 1888 in Hyde Park, MA. I was just out of Amherst College and only 21 years old. His father, a pastor, he asked his former parishioner Hunt Captain Arthur Young help finding the right position. Hunt took Davis in Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory, but soon after, Hunt and Clapp decided that Davis was the perfect man to team up with Hall.
Romaine Hall relationship with Cole proved fruitful. Cole, who was the business man much more intelligent, had negotiated the agreement with Hunt and the other investors start that has granted 47% of the common stock of the implementation of company. To receive financial support from local businesses and their employee Hall Arthur Vining Davis produced the first commercial aluminum on Thanksgiving Day 1888. Still remained complicated patent infringement cases to discuss, but Hall was finally victorious. A major challenge was to separate the co-discoverer the process, Paul Héroult, a French chemist as old as Hall to perform basic research in the aluminum-containing compounds. Pleaded Héroult a patent on the same time as Hall did, but again, Hall won the dispute over patent rights. However, the electrolytic reduction of aluminum is called rightly Hall-Heroult process, honoring its two discoverers.
Once again, an idea had become industrial chemicals, as the price per pound Aluminium fell to $ 4.86 in 1888 to $ 0.78 in 1893. In 1907 the company was reorganized as the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa), of which Hall was named vice-president. But Hall and Cole do not work well together. Davis took over when Cole left and stayed for the next 69 years. In the beginning, Davis and Hall were taking each 12-hour shifts and then the plant will take between 30 and 50 pounds of aluminum per day. These were sold at $ 8.00 per pound and kept in an insurance office, even if someone said it was not necessary to keep them in safe, as they were having trouble selling the new metal and that it was unlikely someone wants to steal.
As the business progressed, Hall stayed in doing background research and Davis moved into the leadership role. Correspond to Davis for a market for metal no one knew or wanted. In 1890, Davis provided some molds of the Griswold Company of Erie, PA, a manufacturer of cookware cast iron, and there were some aluminum teapots made. Mr. Griswold was impressed and an order of 2,000 boilers Davis, who tried to explain that he only wanted to sell Griswold aluminum. Griswold would have none of it, and so was forced Alcoa in the manufacturing business to prove that there was a market for this metal.
Surprisingly, when Hall was awarded the Perkin Medal in 1911 for his process, kindly Héroult traveled across the Atlantic to congratulate him at the ceremony. At the time of the premature Hall died on December 27, 1914 at the age of 51, his estate was worth nearly $ 30 million. Before his death, Hall won a third of his fortune to a grateful Oberlin College, where today stands a life-size statue of its benefactor, built entirely of aluminum.
About the Author
Dr. Badruddin Khan teaches Chemistry in the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India.
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