aluminium oxide
Britishnoun
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A nanoscale 'ink' coating of aluminium oxide on metal halide perovskite improves the potential of this emerging photovoltaic technology and stabilises the drop in energy output which currently plagues perovskite technology.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023
The electrolysis process, is energy intensive - electricity is used in the extraction of aluminium from aluminium oxide, which itself comes from the aluminium ore, or bauxite, mined out of the ground.
From BBC ● May 12, 2022
So engineers decided to coat the tubes with aluminium oxide to reflect sunlight and keep them beneath that 60 °C threshold.
From Nature ● Jan. 17, 2017
Note: Sapphires can also be yellow, purple, orange or green – different compositionally from emeralds – while red aluminium oxide is a ruby.
From Forbes ● Jul. 25, 2014
It functions chiefly as an acidic oxide, being less basic than aluminium oxide, and forming no stable oxy-salts.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
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