[Sca-cooks] Aluminum

[Chris Stanifer]

--- Betsy Marshall <betsy at softwareinnovation.com> wrote:

> "I seem to recall"(tm) once hearing of Napoleon at a dinner party giving
> the honored guests their place settings of Aluminum, while the regulars
> had to make do with the usual gold forks and spoons- something about the
> complicated chemical extraction process making it actually more
> expensive than the gold set.
> Pyro 


It's my understanding that Aluminum, in it's metallic state, was first achieved by Hans Oersted in
1825...some 4 years after Napoleon's death.

William de Grandfort

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Through teeth of sharks, the Autumn barks.....and Winter squarely bites me.


		
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