Economy
When aluminum was worth more than gold
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Imagine wrapping your leftover pizza in a material historically reserved for kings. Before the invention of commercial electrolysis, extracting aluminum was so painstakingly difficult that it was considered the most precious metal on Earth. Napoleon III notoriously reserved his prestigious aluminum cutlery strictly for his most honored guests, forcing the lesser royalty to eat with basic, embarrassing gold forks.
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