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Germany... probably. A Danish chemist performed an experiment and obtained a metal he claimed was "like tin"; a German chemist repeated it and concluded that what the Danish chemist had found was likely pure potassium, but that he hadn't recognized it. He then went on to isolate aluminium himself.

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Aluminum is made from bauxite, a very common element in the Earth's crust. The process for making it was supposedly discovered in the USA in the early twentieth century. However a coffin made of aluminum that was dated to 2000 BCE has been discovered. Since the process requires an enormous amount of electricity, the Chinese artifact certainly raises more questions than it answers.

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Danish chemist and physicist Hans Christian Oersted discovered aluminum in 1825 in Denmark. He reacted anhydrous aluminum chloride with potassuim amalgam.

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In 1808, Sir Humphrey Davy discovered the existence of a shiny metal we are so dependent on today and named it aluminium.

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aluminum was discovered in Japan in 1796.

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