As we prepare to embark upon the season of wrapping foodstuffs, Martin Fone answers a question that’s been bugging us for years: is it dull side up and shiny side down, or the other way around?
Aluminium — or aluminum, if you’re ready this from the other side of the Atlantic — is the third most abundant element on the earth’s crust, after oxygen and silicon; and the second most used metal, after iron. Yet, curiously, it is one of the more recently…
