How aluminum foil is made

By at 1:43 pm Tuesday, Sep 26

Ingot Here's an interesting Discovery Channel video showing how an 18" thick, 14-foot x 5-foot, 8 ton ingot of aluminum is milled into eight miles of the aluminum foil you have in your kitchen. I still call aluminum foil "tin foil" even though it hasn't been tin for almost a century.
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David Pescovitz

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