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Sir Humphrey Davy first used the word aluminia but Charles Marting Hall was the first person to come up with an inexpensive way to produce aluminum, which is wh
by rickdale 13y ago
Sir Humphrey Davy first used the word aluminia but Charles Marting Hall was the first person to come up with an inexpensive way to produce aluminum, which is what brought the metal in to wide spread commercial use.[1]
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Martin_Hall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Martin_Hall
- orbitingpluto 13y agoDon't mention Hall without Héroult. Apparently that's the equivalent of saying Newton invented calculus w/o mentioning Leibniz. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall-H%C3%A9roult_process http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall-H%C3%A9roult_process