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                                  Arnold is made from                                                 

.                                         aluminum. You can see                

                                        aluminum on the

                                        Periodic Table of 

                                        Elements in Group 3! What is 

there to know about it? To find out, let's take a look 

in Arnold's photo album!

Here, we see Arnold as a baby, before he 

became a can! This is him as a chunk of pure 

aluminum. To become a can, a can producer 

would have to buy aluminum for $15.72 per 

100 grams. At room temperature, aluminum is 

a solid, and has a density of 2.702 g/cm   .

You can see that aluminum is a silvery-white, 

metallic, malleable element. Untouched 

aluminum is soft, but can easily be turned to a 

hard substance after being alloyed. It is used 

to form hard yet light, corrosion-resistant 

materials. Aluminum can be found in many 

transportation vehicles like cars, bikes, and 

train cars; as a packaging item like soup cans, 

and foil; and at construction sites as some 

doors, siding, and building wire.

This is one of Arnold's great ancestors. He was the first to be 

discovered by Hans Christian Ørsted in 1825. In 1761, de 

Morveau thought of   the name "alumine" for the base in alum. In 

1807, Davy proposed the name alumium for the metal, 

undiscovered at that time, and later agreed to change it to 

aluminum with the other scientists. Shortly after, the name 

aluminium was adopted by IUPAC, the 

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, and they 

conformed its name with the "ium," the ending of most 

elements. Aluminium is the IUPAC spelling and because of 

that, it has become the international standard. 

Aluminium was the accepted 

spelling of the element in the 

U.S.A. until 1925, when the 

American Chemical Society 

decided to change it back 

to aluminum due to most people 

calling it by its name today, aluminum. Today, Americans refer to 

aluminium as "aluminum".

                                                                           This is Arnold 

                                                  during his first

                                                  trip to the       

                                                  beach. It looks

                                                  like he's having 

                                                  fun! Good thing 

                                                  it wasn't 1,221 

degrees Fahrenheit because that's 

aluminum's melting point.

These are the properties of Arnold's cousins, 

Aluminum 26, and Aluminum 27. They are 

isotopes and 26 is radioactive while the other 

is not.

Due to its thin layer of oxide, aluminum 

does not react to water or air. This is 

Arnold NOT reacting to water or air.

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