Aluminum Traditional Cache
TJPJ: Cache container has disappeared. It's had a good run on a nice trail.
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Located on a path in Cleveland MetroParks. Plan on about 0.5 mile round trip from the parking coordinates. Winter friendly and only a few feet off the path.
Continuing your expansion of the knowledge of Chemistry by naming caches after elements in the Periodic Table.
Aluminum is the second element, alphabetically, in the Periodic Table. Its atomic number is 13 and has a symbol of Al. It was discovered by Oersted, a Danish chemist in 1825. Aluminum is the most abundant element in the earth’s crust, but exists combined with other elements. In the 1880’s two chemists, independently, developed a process for obtaining elemental aluminum from aluminum oxide. The process is commonly known as the Heroult-Hall process after the inventors. Charles Martin Hall was a professor of chemisty at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. In 1888, Hall formed the Pittsburgh Reduction Co., which ultimately became the Aluminum Co. of America or ALCOA. Commercial use of aluminum is present in virtually every industry throughout the world.
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