Aluminium is element 13, a post-transition of the p block, in group 13, period 3. Its ground-state configuration is [Ne] 3s2 3p1, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0, 3.
It was discovered in 1825, by Ørsted.
Name origin: from alumina, a compound (originally aluminum).
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