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aluminum

13 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. aluminum (noun)
  2. aluminum brass (noun)
  3. aluminum bronze (noun)
  4. aluminum hydrate (noun)
  5. aluminum oxide (noun)
  6. aluminum paint (noun)
  7. aluminum paper (noun)
  8. aluminum soap (noun)
  9. aluminum sulfate (noun)
  10. aluminum trihydrate (noun)
  11. lithium aluminum hydride (noun)
  12. sodium aluminum fluoride (noun)
  13. sodium aluminum sulfate (noun)

alu·mi·num

noun, often attributive \ə-ˈlü-mə-nəm\

Definition of ALUMINUM

: a bluish silver-white malleable ductile light trivalent metallic element that has good electrical and thermal conductivity, high reflectivity, and resistance to oxidation and is the most abundant metal in the earth's crust where it always occurs in combination — see element table
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Origin of ALUMINUM

New Latin, from alumina
First Known Use: 1810

Other Chemical Engineering Terms

alkali, cation, decant, hygroscopic, isotope, oxidize, slurry, solute, viscous

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