What does the latin word "alum" mean? Aluminum was derived from the Latin word "alumen."?
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Alum is the name of a plant, commonly called comfrey. Alumen means alum, which is a number of different metal compounds, crystallized double sulfates, which can contain many different kinds of metals, of which aluminium is one. The name was given to it by the scientist, Sir H. Davy, who isolated it. He decided upon the name because it is the metal that most abundantly forms alum. It litteraly means "of alum." So it comes from alumen in that it comes from alum, which comes from alumen. It is not directly related.
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T6, refers to how the aluminum was treated.  T6 is solution heat treated and then artificially aged.
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To wax lyrical means to talk about something with a lot of interest and excitement.\n\nOne can wax poetic, lyrical, eloquent, philosophical, etc. It's all pretty much the same thing. But finding the origins of this phrase is a bit tricky.\n\nOne sense of wax (as an intransitive verb) is to pass into a mood or state.\n\nIn this sense one could understand the phrase wax poetic (or sarcastic, or whatever) and this would certainly lead one to doubt whether this phrase is an idiom (as I had been thinking) because it can be taken literally.\n\nThe Canadian Oxford Dictionary suggests that wax (in this sense) has a Germanic origin: wachsen (to grow). The interesting thing about this relationship is that wachsen never has an attribute, i.e. neither wax poetic nor grow old translate.\n\nThe Encarta online dictionary's suggestion is that this sense of wax is from Old English weaxan, and ultimately from an Indo-European base meaning “to increase,” which is also the ancestor of English "augment" and "eke."\n\nThe American Heritage Dictionary agrees, adding that this word is an offshoot of the Indo-European Language family's root fragment "aug", from whence we get words like augment, inaugurate, auxilliary, august, and auction.
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Silver (from Anglo-Saxon seolfor, compare Old High German silabar; Ag is from the Latin argentum) has been known since ancient times. It is mentioned in the book of Genesis, and slag heaps found in Asia Minor and on the islands of the Aegean Sea indicate that silver was being separated from lead as early as the 4th millennium BC. So noone really knows.
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One latin and four greek origins here:\n\nFluorine is from the latin "fluere", meaning "to flow"\nChlorine is from the greek "chloros", meaning "pale green"\nBromine is from the greek "bromos", meaning "stench"\nIodine is from the greek "iodes", meaning "violet"\nAstatine is from the greek "astatos", meaning "unstable"
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Alchemist: An alchemist is a person who practices alchemy.\n\nAlchemy: Alchemy is an early protoscientific and philosophical discipline combining elements of chemistry, metallurgy, physics, medicine, astrology, semiotics, mysticism, spiritualism, and art. Alchemy has been practiced in ancient Egypt, India, and China, in Classical Greece and Rome, in the Islamic empire, and then in Europe up to the 19th century — in a complex network of schools and philosophical systems spanning at least 2500 years.
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silvery\nductile \nmember of the poor metal group of chemical elements\nsolid\nDensity   2.70 g·cm−3 \nMelting point (660.32 °C, 1220.58 °F) \n\nAluminium is a soft, lightweight metal with normally a dull silvery appearance caused by a thin layer of oxidation that forms quickly when the metal is exposed to air.
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The Alum I'm familiar with is:\n\na white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum Al2(SO4)3\n\nThough I believe there are other types of Alum:\nAmmonium aluminum sulfate dodecahydrate, NH4Al(SO4)2 ·12 H2O being one of them.\n\nAlum (definition)  double  sulphate  formed  of  aluminium  and  some  other  element \n  (esp.  an  alkali  metal)  or  of  aluminium.  It  has  twenty-four \n  molecules  of  water  of  crystallization. \n \n  Note:  Common  alum  is  the  double  sulphate  of  aluminium  and \n  potassium.  It  is  white,  transparent,  very  astringent, \n  and  crystallizes  easily  in  octahedrons.  The  term  is \n  extended  so  as  to  include  other  double  sulphates \n  similar  to  alum  in  formula. \n\n alum \n  n  1:  a  white  crystalline  double  sulfate  of  aluminum:  the  ammonium \n  double  sulfate  of  aluminum  [syn:  {ammonia  alum},  {ammonium \n  alum}] \n  2:  a  white  crystalline  double  sulfate  of  aluminum:  the \n  potassium  double  sulfate  of  aluminum  [syn:  {potassium  alum}, \n  {potash  alum}] \n  3:  a  person  who  has  received  a  degree  from  a  school  (high \n  school  or  college  or  university)  [syn:  {alumnus},  {alumna}, \n  {graduate},  {grad}] \n  4:  a  double  sulphate  of  aluminum  and  potassium  that  is  used  as \n  an  astringent  (among  other  things)
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The Latin name for the metal is "Stannium", while its chemical formula is derived from this name as: "Sn".
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Very cool question\n\nCulminate is a verb which means to bring to a peak or reach its highest point.\n\nIt comes from the same Latin meaning as the word "column".\n\nSo since a column is tall, you can remember the meaning of the word easier.\n\nThanks for asking this because now I know too!
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the scientific name is Hydrated Sodium Aluminum Silicate\n\nthe rarety is that instead of the usual prisms with square pyramidal terminations there are formed small roof-shaped ridges as shown in plate 34, commonly with curved or more strictly broken roof lines and coxcomb-like groups
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Aluminium or aluminum (see the spelling section below) is the chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Al and atomic number 13. It is a silvery and ductile member of the poor metal group of chemical elements. Aluminium is found primarily as the ore bauxite and is remarkable for its resistance to corrosion (due to the phenomenon of passivation) and its light weight. Aluminium is used in many industries to make millions of different products and is very important to the world economy. Structural components made from aluminium and its alloys are vital to the aerospace industry and very important in other areas of transportation and building in which light weight, durability, and strength are needed.\n\nMore information at the link below! Hope that helps.
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Chemical comes from the word alchemical, which refers to the capacity for transformation...change from one form to another form!
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B.\n\nthe process is called passivation. and may be increased to a greater extent on purpose by electrolysing aluminum in acid to increase the oxide layer. this is called anodizing.
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Aluminium Oxide (Al2O3) is insoluble in water but it is very slightly soluble in acids and alkalis. Aluminium Oxide is not only theoretical, it's used in applications including anti-refelective coatings, multilayers, interference films, protective films etc.
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also spelled Aluminium chemical element, a lightweight, silvery-white metal of main Group IIIa (boron group) of the periodic table. Aluminum is the most abundant metallic element in the Earth's crust and the most widely used nonferrous metal. Because of its chemical activity,aluminum never occurs in the metallic form in nature, but its compounds are present to a greater or lesser extent in almost all rocks, vegetation, and animals. Aluminum is concentrated in the outer 10 miles (16 km) of the Earth's crust, of which it constitutes about 8 percent by weight; it is exceeded in amount only by oxygen and silicon.\n\nOccurrence, uses, and properties.\n\nAluminum occurs in igneous rocks chiefly as aluminosilicatesin feldspars, feldspathoids, and micas; in the soil derived from them as clay; and upon further weathering as bauxite and iron-rich laterite. Bauxite, a mixture of hydrated aluminum oxides, is the principal aluminum ore. Crystalline aluminum oxide (emery, corundum), which occurs in a few igneous rocks, is mined as anatural abrasive or in its finer varieties as rubies and sapphires. Aluminum is present in other gemstones, such as topaz, garnet, and chrysoberyl. Of the many other aluminum minerals, alunite and cryolite have some commercial importance.\n\nCrude aluminum was isolated (1825) by  Hans Christian Ørsted by reducing aluminum chloride with potassium amalgam.  Sir Humphry Davy had prepared (1809) an iron-aluminum alloy by electrolyzing fused alumina (aluminum oxide) and had already named the element aluminum; the word later was modified to aluminium in England and some other European countries. A German chemist,  Friedrich Wöhler, using potassium metal as the reducing agent, produced aluminum powder (1827) and small globules of the metal (1845) from which he was able to determine some of its properties.\n\nThe new metal was introduced to the public (1855) at the Paris Exposition at about the time that it became available (insmall amounts at great expense) by the sodium reduction of molten aluminum chloride. When electric power became relatively plentiful and cheap, almost simultaneously  Charles Martin Hall in the United States and  Paul-Louis-Toussaint Héroult in France discovered (1886) the modern method of commercially producing aluminum: electrolysis of purified alumina (Al2O3) dissolved in molten cryolite (Na3AlF6). During the 1960s aluminum moved into first place, ahead of copper, in world production of nonferrous metals. For more specific information about the mining, refining, and production of aluminum, see Industries, Extraction and Processing: Aluminum . \n\nAluminum is added in small amounts to certain  metals to improve their properties for specific uses, as in aluminum bronzes and most magnesium-base alloys; or, for aluminum-base alloys, moderate amounts of other metals andsilicon are added to aluminum. The metal and its alloys are used extensively for aircraft construction, building materials, consumer durables (refrigerators, air conditioners, cooking utensils), electrical conductors, and chemical and food-processing equipment.\n\nPure aluminum (99.996 percent) is quite soft and weak; commercial aluminum (99.0 to 99.6 percent pure) with smallamounts of silicon and iron is hard and strong. Ductile and highly malleable, aluminum can be drawn into wire or rolled into thin foil. The metal is only about one-third as dense as ironor copper. Though chemically active, aluminum is nevertheless highly corrosion-resistant because in air a hard, tough oxide film forms on its surface.\n\nAluminum is an excellent conductor of heat and electricity. Its thermal conductivity is about one-half that of copper; its electrical conductivity, about two-thirds. It crystallizes in the face-centred cubic structure. All natural aluminum is the stable isotope aluminum-27. Metallic aluminum and its oxide and hydroxide are nontoxic.\n\nAluminum is slowly attacked by most dilute acids and rapidly dissolves in concentrated
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O.E. seolfor "silver," from P.Gmc. *silubra- (cf. O.S. silvbar, O.N. silfr, M.Du. silver, Du. zilver, O.H.G. sillabar, Ger. silber, Goth. silubr), from a common Germanic/Balto-Slavic term (cf. O.C.S. sirebo, Rus. serebo, Lith. sidabras "silver"), possibly from a language of Asia Minor. Perhaps from Akkad. sarpu "silver," lit. "refined silver," related to sarapu "to refine, smelt." Chemical abbreviation Ag is from L. argentum "silver," from the PIE root (see argent). The verb, "to cover or plate with silver" is recorded from 1440. Silverware is from 1860. \n\nHope this helps.