AMAZING ALUMINIUM: What is Aluminium? 🥫 ✈️

About this episode

Dan explores the journey and properties of aluminium, including a fun recycling experiment.

In this episode of  Fun Kids Science Quest , Dan follows aluminium’s epic journey from dusty bauxite mines to roaring foundries and the everyday objects you use all the time. Discover why it’s light, strong, rust-resistant and endlessly recyclable, then try a fun at-home “Recycling Detective” experiment to test its surprising properties. From planes to foil wrappers, this super metal has some seriously cool science behind it. Created with support from Alupro.   Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Dan

Topics covered

• aluminium
• recycling
• science
• experiments
• materials

Keywords

• aluminium
• bauxite
• foundries
• recycling
• properties
• science
• experiments

Sponsors

Alupro

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