Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1914 — Aluminum-Foil. [ARTICLE]

Aluminum-Foil.

Methods have recently been invented for rolling oat sheets of aluminum even finer than those of the ordinary tin-foil. The specific weight of aluminum is about one-eighth that of tin, and its price at present is only half that of the other metal. One of the alleged advantages of aluminum-foil as a substitute for tin-foil is that tin salts are more or less poisonous, whereas aluminum salts, at least in. small quantities, are practically harmless. This suggests the use of the new product for wrapping sweetmeats. , 1