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Around 5,000 years ago, people in what is now Iran began turning dull stone into shining metal. By heating copper ore until ...

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Copper smelters from 3,000 years ago may have experimented with materials just enough to launch the Iron Age. The Bronze Age gave way to the Iron Age as the refining process of iron was discovered.

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Although Charles Hall conducted his first successful run of the Hall-Héroult aluminium smelting process in the woodshed behind his house, it has ever since remained mostly out of reach of home ...

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Within just 150 years, aluminum has gone from precious metal to the backbone of nearly every industry on the planet. Because of its importance, experts forecast that aluminum production will increase ...