Which element did Ørsted succeed in isolating in 1825?
Iron
Copper
Aluminum
Silver
Answer
The answer is Aluminum. Aluminum is a lightweight, corrosion-resistant metal that is abundant in Earth's crust but is rarely found in elemental form due to its high chemical reactivity. In 1825, Danish physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted isolated the first sample of pure aluminum by reducing aluminum chloride with potassium amalgam.
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