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 * Aluminum**

Aluminum is a type of metal. The color of Aluminum is silver. The elemental symbol for Aluminum is Al. The Atomic Number (number of protons in the atom) of Aluminum is 13. The Atomic Mass (the number of protons and neutrons in the atom) of Aluminum is 27. the number of electrons is usually the number of protons, so there will be 13 protons, 13 electrons, and 14 neutrons. Atoms with different Atomic Masses are Isotopes, the protons never change, it is just the neutrons that make the atom an Isotope. The protons and neutrons are stored in the nucleus (the center of the atom) and the electrons circle it. The melting point of Aluminum is 660.37 c and the boiling point of Aluminum is 2467 c. Aluminums density is 2.701 g/cm3, this means that it will sink in water. Aluminum is a Post-Transition metal, which means that it is a metalloid, a metalloid has not as great as a conductor as metal but not as poor conductor of a liquid.

Figure 1: The yellow particles are the neutrons. The black particles are the protons, and the green particles are the electrons.

Figure 2: This is Aluminum in its raw form.

Figure 3: This is Aluminum Foil

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