aluminum
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Adding aluminum to the atmosphere can start reactions that free up ozone-destroying chlorine.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
The outage was particularly disruptive for Ford, which uses aluminum for the body of the F-150 pickup truck, America’s bestselling vehicle for decades.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Ford at the time forecast a $1.5 billion to $2 billion of one-time incremental costs to secure alternatively sourced aluminum “until the Novelis facility is operating at full throughput later this year.”
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
The plant is the largest domestic supplier of aluminum sheet for the U.S. auto sector.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
Americans dutifully adopted the new term, but many British users disliked aluminum, pointing out that it disrupted the –ium pattern established by sodium, calcium, and strontium, so they added a vowel and syllable.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing aluminum
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