Aluminum is the most abundant metal in the earth’s crust, but pure aluminum does not exist in nature. Although scientists tried to produce aluminum from about 1750, it wasn’t until 18 45 that the first pinhead-sized globules of aluminum were produced by German chemist Friedrich Wöhler. By 1855 French chemist Henri Saint-Claire Deville was able to produce sufficient quantities of the metal to make the first aluminum objects.
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