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Aluminum
Post-transition metal · p-block · ring M · spoke 13
Aluminum is element 13, a post-transition metal. It sits on ring M (period 3) on spoke 13, the boron group. Follow that spoke toward the center and out again to find its chemical relatives.
Properties
| Density | 2.7 g/cm³ | Terrain → |
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| Melting point | 933 K · 660 °C | Terrain → |
| Boiling point | 2,743 K · 2,470 °C | Terrain → |
| Electronegativity | 1.61 | Terrain → |
| First ionization energy | 578 kJ/mol | Terrain → |
| Atomic weight | 26.9815 u | Terrain → |
| Crustal abundance | 82,300 ppm3rd most abundant in Earth's crust of 92 | Terrain → |
| Discovered | 1746 | Terrain → |
Values from open reference data; see sources. "Terrain" opens that property as a 3D landscape across the whole spiral.
Two things you might not know
- Once so hard to produce that its cost exceeded gold, it was used to cap the Washington Monument, completed in 1885.
- The most abundant metal in Earth's crust; drink cans and kitchen foil are made of it.
Checked against en.wikipedia.org.
Spoke 13: Boron group
Ring M (period 3)
Play with Aluminum
Watch it fly into its seat, or raise the whole spiral into a landscape and see where it peaks.