what family does aluminum belong to?its NOT the boron or aluminum family.i know its group 13. i need the family name.please help
Aluminum is an orphan metal- (orphans appear in groups 3, 4, and 5 of the periodic table). They are called orphans simply because none belongs to a clearly defined family (like alkaline earth, transition metals, halogens, etc). Sometimes aluminum and the three elements below it in Group 3—gallium, indium, and thallium—are lumped together as the aluminum family, but that's not a clearly recognized family.
