Is aluminum the most plentiful

Answer 1

Aluminium in compounds (e.g. aluminum oxide) is the most abundant metallic substance on earth, and the third most abundant of all the elements (after oxygen and silicon). Aluminium found in its natural state almost always exist as oxides or silicates because of it's high reactivity order.

However, if you are to extract the aluminum from their ores; namely bauxite, to be process into 'pure' aluminum then the economically viable ores available (by today's processing methods) is predicted to run out by 2074. (Source: http://www.wcoes.org/2008/06/peak-aluminum.HTML)

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Answer 2

Aluminum is not rare. Thousands of boxes of foil, known as aluminum foil, is in great abundance. Aluminum foil is made out of aluminum, and is available by the thousands. It isn't rare, but is quite common and easy to produce. No! In the earth's crust, aluminum is the most abundant naturally occurring element; it makes up 8.3% of the earth's crust by weight. It is the third most abundant of all elements, after oxygen and silicon.

It is rare, however, in the sense that it is difficult to find in its free form. In fact, it was once considered more valuable than gold, silver, and platinum. It is not as valuable nowadays, because there are easier methods of extracting it from ore.

Answer 3

Aluminum only occurs very rarely in its native mineral state even though it is the most abundant metal in the crust of the Earth. It is a common component of many rocks, but only bauxite deposits are mined as they contain sufficient concentrated amounts of the element to be considered an ore.

Answer 4

Today it is not. When first discovered in the 1800's, it was considered as such.

Aluminium (Aluminum US) is a very common metal, making up some 8% of the Earth's crust. It reacts readily with oxygen, and is almost never found in nature as a pure metal.

Aluminium is today made from the ore, bauxite, using an energy intesisve process; plants are often sited near to cheap hydro-electric suppliers.

(I have no idea how aluminum was refined in the early pre-electric days!)

Answer 5

you mean PRECIOUS metal? No it is not - it is the most abundant (plentiful) element in the earths crust . . . it is mined as the ore called BAUXITE

Answer 6

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