aluminium oxide

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a white or colourless insoluble powder occurring naturally as corundum and used in the production of aluminium and its compounds, abrasives, glass, and ceramics. Formula: Al 2 O 3Also called: alumina See also activated alumina

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Words nearby aluminium oxide

aluminiferous, aluminite, aluminium, aluminium bronze, aluminium hydroxide, aluminium oxide, aluminium sulphate, aluminize, alumino-, aluminography, aluminosilicate

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Reddish and yellowish sandy clay, coloured by oxide of iron, and used as pigments by the natives.
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Blew in two faces & got good looking ore seamed with a black incrustation, oxide of something, but what could not determine.
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Gore found that aluminium was dissolved and that sodium and potassium were attacked by the gas, even before its liquefaction.
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The properties of ammoniacal solutions of silver oxide are in entire agreement with this conception.
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