Intro: Aluminum or aluminium has an atomic number of 13. Its symbol is Al and it is located in group13 (IIIA), period 3.
History: The story of aluminum started out in England. The year was 1807 when a British scientist named Humphry Davy, discovered a new unidentified element in clay. He tried using electrolysis to isolate the element, but he could only manage to create the white compound this element formed with oxygen. He named it alumina.
In 1825 someone was finally able to isolate aluminum. His name was Hans Christian Oersted, and he was a Danish chemist. …
