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THE number of metals available in large quantities for industrial purposes is so very small, that the successful introduction of a new one must be of the greatest interest. The affinity of aluminium for oxygen much exceeds that of iron at a red heat. Iron oxide is reduced by carbon at that temperature, while alumina cannot be reduced in this way except in the electric arc. And thus,. though the ores of aluminium are more widely distributed even than those of iron, yet the former metal remained for long unknown, and until lately was comparatively rare.
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Aluminium and its Uses . Nature 64, 650–651 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064650a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/064650a0