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The raw material in the manufacture of aluminium
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1861, clayey mineral containing aluminum, from French bauxite (1821), from Les Baux, near Soles, where it was first found. The place name is from Provençal Li Baus, literally "the precipices.&quo [..]
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(n) a clay-like mineral; the chief ore of aluminum; composed of aluminum oxides and aluminum hydroxides; used as an abrasive and catalyst
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A rock made up of hydrous aluminum oxides; the most common aluminum ore. Bear market
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Bauxite is a sedimentary rock with a relatively high aluminium content. It is the world's main source of aluminium. Bauxite consists mostly of the aluminium minerals gibbsite (Al(OH)3), boehmite (γ-Al [..]
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A rock composed of aluminum hydroxides and impurities in the form of silica, clay, silt, and iron hydroxides. A residual weathering product, exploited as the primary ore for aluminum.
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mineral containing aluminum.
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Aluminum trihydrate, the most common raw material for the production of alumina. Roughly two tons of bauxite make one ton of alumina.
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The only commercial ore of aluminum, corresponding essentially to the formula Al2O3xh3O.
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Principal alumina-bearing ore.
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