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Because at the time the price of aluminum was much higher than the price of platinum! This was because the only way known at the time to extract metallic aluminum from its ore were tedious chemical processes that could only yield tiny amounts for enormous effort.

This is the same reason that the tip of the Washington Monument is an aluminum pyramid.

However sometime after the Washington Monument was finished a new molten salt electrolysis process was developed that yielded massive amounts of metallic aluminum very inexpensively and the price of aluminum fell instantly to far less than plain common iron.

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