what is aluminum foil made out of?

Question

i need this as soon as possible. it is for a school project. i need this in the next 30 minutes. thanks in advance.

i need this really fast!!! please answer!!!! (and please add more info than just aluminum) it would be great if you could tell me how it is made!

Answer 1

You're kidding right?

Aluminum. It's a metal. It's on the Periodic Table.


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Answer 2

foil is not an element, it is a descriptor meaning a thin paper-like sheet of metal. Aluminum foil is made from pure refined Aluminum which is an element. Because Aluminum metal is highly reactive, the surface of the foil is actually a thin coating of Aluminum Oxide formed in reaction with air. this coating acts as a protection against further corrosion. This corrosion resistance is why aluminum is the preferred metal foil constituent.

Answer 3

I happen to produce all the Aluminum Foil made in America, here in my basement.. I received the "secret ingredients list" from Ronald Reagan's little sister "Tabitha". (Alu-Foil was a Government project from it's conception) I obviously can't divulge the entire list, but, I will tell you that Aluminum Foil gets most of it's strength from my Grandfather's *** hair. A few complex chemicals like powdery stuff and wet yuck. We mix it together and the Government pick's it up. I don't use it though...

Answer 4

hey are made of alluminium as follows......
Aluminium Production

The aluminium production process involves two main stages:

· Alumina, or aluminium oxide (Al2O3) is refined from the bauxite in a caustic soda/high temperature process.

· Aluminium is obtained by an electrolytic smelting process, which breaks down the alumina into molten aluminium and oxygen. The silver-coloured molten aluminium is syphoned off into furnaces where other elements are added to produce particular alloys, before being poured into moulds to form ingots.

In round figures it takes 4 tonnes of bauxite to make 2 tonnes of alumina, which makes 1 tonne of aluminium.

The primary production process consumes about 14kwh per 1 kg of aluminium. Approximately 60 per cent of world aluminium production uses hydro-electric power, rather than non-renewable energy sources. Producing aluminium by recycling uses only 5% of the energy used in primary production: recycling aluminium, which has always been an important part of the industry, makes sense both commercially and environmentally.

Rolling the Aluminium Foil

The ingots of aluminium are heated to make them more malleable, rolled, passing backwards and forwards through large rollers as the slab gets thinner and thinner, and longer and longer. This metal strip is hot rolled to a thickness of 2 to 4 mm (2000 to 4000 microns) and then coiled, before being cold rolled to metal thicknesses of between 6 and 400 microns. The thinnest foil used for wrapping chocolates may be only 6 microns thick (about one-eighth the thickness of newspaper!), with household wrapping and cooking foil between 11 and 18 microns, lidding foil between about 30 and 40 microns, and foil for foil containers generally between 40 and 90 microns.

Answer 5

Aluminium foil (known as aluminum foil in North America) is aluminium prepared in thin sheets with a thickness less than 0.2 mm / 0.008 in, although much thinner gauges down to 0.006 mm are commonly used [1]. As a result of this, the foil is extremely pliable, and can be bent or wrapped around objects with ease. However, thin foils are fragile and easily damaged, and are usually laminated to other materials such as plastics or paper to make them useful.

Millions of tonnes of aluminium foil are produced annually, with production of approximately 800,000 tonnes in Europe[1] and 600,000 tonnes (1.3 billion lbs) in the USA[2] in 2003. Approximately 75% of aluminium foil is used for packaging of foods, cosmetics and chemical products, and 25% used for industrial applications (eg. thermal insulation, cables and electronics) [1] [3].

Aluminium foil is sometimes known as al-foil or alu-foil. It is also often called tinfoil (although it is not made from tin), silver paper (although it is not made from silver either), or in North America as Reynolds wrap after Reynolds Metals, the leading manufacturer when it was introduced on the American market (much to the chagrin of Alcoa, Reynolds' main competitor, which had its brand "Alcoa Wrap" referred to as "Alcoa Reynold's Wrap")[citation needed]. Metallised films are sometimes mistaken for aluminium foil, but are actually polymer films coated with a thin layer of aluminium.

Answer 6

Well to know exactly look on the box to see what it is made out of...I imagine that it is made of recycled aluminum and melted all together and then pressed....I will get back with you on the ingredients k?

Answer 7

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You were supposed to ask what is tinfoil made of, so we could all tell you it was aluminum now

Answer 8

It depends on the brand. Some are mostly tin. Some are mostly aluminum. There are no "ingredient" listings because it is not a food.

Answer 9

ummm...its made from aluminum dumba$$. you are smart enough to put a question in yahoo answers but not smart enough to google your question? this is the first link that comes up when you google "how aluminum foil is made"

http://www.enotes.com/how-products-encyclopedia/aluminum-foil