What are the uses, facts, history, and properties of the element known as Aluminum?

General Statistics Name: Aluminum Symbol: Al Atomic Number: 13 Atomic Mass: 26.981539 amu Density: 2.702 g/cm3 Melting Point: 660.37 °C Freezing Point: 2467.0 °C Discovery and History In 1825, a Danish chemist named Hans Christian Oersted was the first to isolate aluminum. He performed this by using a chemical process involving potassium amalgam. The name was given from alumen, the Latin word for the mineral alum. Sometime between 1827 and 1845 Friedrick Wöhler, a German chemist, improved Oersted's process by using …

…to its high reflectiveness aluminum is used as an insulator and it reflects the heat back into the home or keeps the cold in the home depending upon the homes temperature. This very trait also makes it used in space suits. It helps to maintain an astronauts temperature. Long telephone wires are usually made of aluminum instead of copper. Aluminum is much more efficient because it is lighter, conducts more electricity on a weight ratio.