Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2023-06-15
Books mentioned on How Alumin(i)um Works
Humans made it through the Bronze Age and Iron Age, then we dabbled in steel, and now we are living in the Aluminum Age. The metal is so ubiquitous it seems like it’s been around forever, but we’ve only been really using it since the 20th century.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy ...: Elements of chemical philosophy
Discussed“He wrote a book uh of elements Elemental and chemistry I'm sorry chemical philosophy four years after that and at that point it was spelled aluminum”
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