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140 years ago today, Charles Martin Hall, an American inventor, businessman, and chemist, filed his first patent for an inexpensive method of producing aluminum.

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140 years ago today, Charles Martin Hall, an American inventor, businessman, and chemist, filed his first patent for an inexpensive method of producing aluminum.

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Aluminum: Common Metal, Uncommon Past

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Now ubiquitous and vital to modern life, aluminum was once more expensive than gold, locked away in its ore without a commercially viable method to release it.

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