Aluminum (symbol Al, sometimes known as aluminium) is a chemical element, a poor metal with atomic number 13 on the periodic table.

Characteristics and historyEdit

Aluminum has an atomic mass of 26.9815. This element was discovered by Humans for the first time on Earth's European continent in Denmark, in the year 1825. (ST reference: Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual)

In an alternate timeline where the Na'Kuhl had traveled to the 20th century to interfere in World War II, Vosk required the Nazis to divert 86 metric tons of aluminum plating and 170 tons of carbon steel to implement construction of plasma pulse weapons. (ENT episode: "Storm Front")

In the year 2370, Jake Sisko fed some hungry Horta an armful of aluminum baseball bats in an attempt to try and slow their progress to Deep Space 9's core. (DS9 novel: Devil in the Sky)

AppendicesEdit

ReferencesEdit

• DS9 novel: Devil in the Sky
• ST references: Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual, Ships of the Line, Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise
• VOY episode: "The 37's"
• ENT episode: "Storm Front"
• FASA RPG module: Orion Ruse
• TOS novels: World Without End, Ishmael
• TNG novels: Requiem, Dyson Sphere
• TOS - The Eugenics Wars novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 2
• ENT - The Romulan War novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing

External linksEdit

• Aluminum article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• Aluminum article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
• Aluminium article at TARDIS Data Core, the Wikia for Doctor Who sources.