aluminum chloride

noun Chemistry.

a yellow-white, crystalline, water-soluble solid that in its white hydrated form, AlCl3⋅6H2O, is used chiefly as a wood preservative and in its yellow-white anhydrous form, AlCl3, chiefly as a catalyst.

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Origin of aluminum chloride

First recorded in 1865–70

Words nearby aluminum chloride

aluminum borate, aluminum borohydride, aluminum brass, aluminum bronze, aluminum carbide, aluminum chloride, aluminum fluosilicate, aluminum glycinate, aluminum hydroxide, aluminum monostearate, aluminum nitrate
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