The third most common element on Earth is aluminum. The only two of greater abundance are oxygen and silicon, thus making aluminum the far most abundant metal on earth. Aluminum has the atomic number thirteen and the chemical symbol Al. It has had many names over the years, including alumina, aluminium, and aluminum. It was in 1807 when a man by the name of Davy proposed the name aluminum, and it was accepted, however, until 1925, aluminium …showed first 75 words of 733 total…

…showed last 75 words of 733 total…an explosion equal to one stick of dynamite! potassium perchlorate - two oz., aluminum powder six-hundred mesh - one oz. Sources Cited/Bibliography Page 1.Stwertka, Albert. A Guide to the Elements. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 1996. 2."Aluminum," Microsoft® Encarta® Reference Library 2003. © 1993-2002 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. 3."Aluminum Association | Overview." © 2003 The Aluminum Association, All Rights Reserved. http://www.aluminum.org/ 4."Aluminum." CST Information Services Team. 12/19/97. http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic/elements/13.html