ANSI C119.6-2024: Electric Connector Systems
Copper has been recognized as an electricity conductor throughout industrial history. In fact, copper was the conductor in classic inventions like the telegraph, telephone, and…
ANSI H35.2-2024: Dimensional Tolerances for Aluminum Mill Products
ANSI H35.2-2024: American National Standard Dimensional Tolerances for Aluminum Mill Products specifies dimensions for different aluminum products. How is Aluminum Used? Aluminum is a highly versatile material,…
AA AAIA-2015: Aluminum and Its Alloys
Consisting of about 8.2% of the Earth’s crust, aluminum is the world’s most abundant metal. However, it is never found in nature as an elemental…
Titanium vs. Steel & Aluminum
Construction engineers and safety inspectors can see the same building from different perspectives. An engineer or architect may eyeball the individual elements and consider the…
U.S. Aluminum Production and Uses
“U.S. production of primary aluminum declined 47% in 2016 to the lowest level since 1951. During the year, three primary smelters were shut down. High…
What Makes a Precious Metal?
The now-omnipresent and affordable aluminum was once more expensive than gold. Treating it as precious and exotic, Emperor Napoleon III had aluminum cutlery made for state…
Global Aluminum Industry Production
Aluminum, despite being the most abundant metal in the earth’s crust, was once more valuable than gold, but now, it is inexpensive and, accordingly, abundant in…
Aluminum or Aluminium?
The chemical element classified on the Periodic Table with the atomic number 13 and symbol Al is a ductile, malleable silver-white metal. This metal is…
Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometric Method in the Determination of Aluminum in Iron Ores
ISO/TR 4688-1:2017 – Iron ores – Determination of aluminium – Part 1: Flame atomic absorption spectrometric method has been released. This technical report describes a…