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The names aluminium and aluminum are derived from the word alumine, an obsolete term for alumina, [j] the primary naturally occurring oxide of aluminium. [119] Alumine was borrowed from French, which in turn derived it from alumen, the classical Latin name for alum, the mineral from which it was collected. [120]
A metamorphic rock called emery that is mostly made of corundum which is an aluminum oxide. This is an example of an aluminum deposit. Aluminum is the third most abundant element in the lithosphere at 82,000 ppm. It occurs in low levels, 0.9 ppm, in humans. [1] Aluminum is known to be an ecotoxicant and expected to be a health risk to people.
Of the 94 naturally occurring chemical elements, 76 are listed in the table above. Of the remaining 18, it is not known how many occur in the human body. Most of the elements needed for life are relatively common in the Earth's crust.
Trace metals within the human body include iron, lithium, zinc, copper, chromium, nickel, cobalt, vanadium, molybdenum, manganese and others. [1] [2] [3] Some of the trace metals are needed by living organisms to function properly and are depleted through the expenditure of energy by various metabolic processes of living organisms.
A detailed description of a substance termed alumen occurs in the Roman Pliny the Elder's Natural History. [8] By comparing Pliny's description with the account of stypteria (στυπτηρία) given by Dioscorides, [9] it is obvious the two are identical. Pliny informs us that a form of alumen was found naturally in the earth, and terms it ...
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Aluminium oxide is used for its hardness and strength. Its naturally occurring form, corundum, is a 9 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness (just below diamond). It is widely used as an abrasive, including as a much less expensive substitute for industrial diamond. Many types of sandpaper use aluminium oxide crystals.