alt Hacker NewsAluminum is honestly a miracle material that has no business being as inexpensive as it is (of course, this is only since the invention of the Hall–Héroult process, before which aluminum was one of the most expensive metals known despite making up ~8% of the crust).
Yup. The very tip of the Washington Monument was made of aluminium, which made it faaaaaancy. Two years later, not so much.