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When the reduction of aluminic oxide by carbon is conducted without the addition of copper, a brittle product is obtained that behaves in many respects like pig iron as it comes from the blast furnace.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 by Various

Then a greenish white solid sublimed, and this was found to be aluminic ethylate.

From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various

Others—the alums, ferrous sulphate, ferric chloride, magnesic and aluminic chlorides, bleaching powder, camphor, salicylic acid, chloroform, creosote, and carbolic acid—decidedly arrested the development of bacteria.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 by Various

To illustrate: the absolutely pure sapphire, pure aluminic oxide, crystallized, is commonly colorless, but we know that Nature's most beautiful sapphires are not colorless, but are blue, and of other beautiful tints.

From Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Talley, Thomas Washington

Ferric or aluminic salts would remove their equivalent of arsenic, and, consequently, must be removed before titrating.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius