Definition of motor for English Language Learners : of, relating to, used in, or involving a vehicle that is powered by a motor (such as a car or motorcycle) : having a motor
Ancient Greeks and Romans used aluminum salts for dressing wounds. However, aluminum metal was not isolated until the 19th century. Danish chemist Hans Christian Ãrsted first produced aluminum in 1825 by reacting aluminum chloride with potassium amalgam. Therefore, Ãrsted is considered to be the discoverer of Aluminum.
Aluminium or aluminum is a chemical element with symbol Al and atomic number 13. It is a silvery-white, soft, nonmagnetic, ductile metal in the boron group. By mass, aluminium makes up about 8% of the Earth's crust; it is the third most abundant element after oxygen and silicon and the most abundant metal in the crust, though it is less common in the mantle below. The chief ore of aluminium is bauxite. Aluminium metal is so chemically reactive that native specimens are rare and limited to extrem