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After oxygen and silicon, aluminium is the earth’s third most abundant element but it is a relatively new metal. Commercial production of the metal only really became feasible this century with the development of new smelting processes. Production after the Second World War was still only around 1 million tonnes a year but supply has rapidly expanded and aluminium is now the world’s most widely used metal after steel.
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Evans, G. (1990). Base Metals. In: Evans, G. (eds) ICCH Commodities Yearbook 1990. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11268-5_9
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