Look up: Aluminium

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   Aluminium
   Aluminium is a bluish-silver-white, malleable, ductile, light, trivalent metallic element with good electrical and thermal conductivity, high reflectivity, and resistance to oxidation and is the most abundant metal in the earth's crust occurring always in combination. It has the symbol Al.
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   Aluminium
   A metal used for carrying electricity because it is light and a good electrical conductor.
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   Aluminium
   Aluminium is the basis for a number of alloys.
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   Aluminium
   Aluminium and its alloys are widely used for various applications including aircraft assemblies and engine parts. It is a silvery white reactive metal which is usually covered in oxide, making it inert to acids, but it is attacked by alkalies. It is extracted from the hydrated oxide, Bauxite, by electrolysis of the oxide dissolved in molten sodium ...
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   Aluminium
   A soft, silver coloured metal commonly used as an engraving material for printing plates. Anodised aluminium has been electroplated with an aluminium oxide coating, which gives it a hard, durable surface.
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   aluminium
   a) a metallic element; b) a good electrical conductor; c) a soft material particularly easily deposited by vacuum evaporation, adheres to silicon and silicon oxide surface Category: Chemistry
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   Aluminium
   This light, silvery, metal is relatively resistant to corrosion, except in salty environments. It is sometimes used to make gutters and downpipes. In sheet form it is occasionally used for ridging, but its lightness makes it vulnerable to high winds.
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   aluminium
   Very light, silver-coloured metal discovered in 1827. From the 1850s it was occsionally used for figurinesand plaques, and sometimes combined with gold for bracelets. Aluminium was back in fashion from the early 1920s onwards for ART DECO cocktail equipment, cigarette collectables such as ashtrays, and useful household articles such as jelly moulds ...
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   Aluminium
   Al`u·min'i·um (ăl`u*mĭn'ĭ*ŭm) noun [ Latin alumen . See Alum .] (Chemistry) The metallic base of alumina. This metal is white, but with a bluish tinge, and is remarkable for its resistance to oxidation, and for its lightness, having a specific gravity of about 2.6. Atomic weight 27.08. Symbol Al. Aluminium bronze or gold , a pale gol ...
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    aluminium
    <chemistry, element> The metallic base of alumina. This metal is white, but with a bluish tinge, and is remarkable for its resistance to oxidation, and for its lightness, pertaining a specific gravity of about 2.6. ... Aluminium bronze or gold, a pale gold-coloured alloy of aluminium and copper, used for journal bearings, etc. ... Atomic weight ...
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    Aluminium
    Light metal with chemical symbol Al. Also coin metal since the end of the First World War.
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    Aluminium
    `Aluminium` or `aluminum` (see `spelling` below) is a silvery white and ductile member of the poor metal group of chemical elements. It has the symbol `Al`; its atomic number is 13. Aluminium is the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust, and the third most abundant element overall, after oxygen and silicon. It makes up about 8% by weight of the Earth`s solid surface. Aluminium is too reactive chemically to occur in nature as the free m...
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    Aluminium
    • (n.) The metallic base of alumina. This metal is white, but with a bluish tinge, and is remarkable for its resistance to oxidation, and for its lightness, having a specific gravity of about 2.6. Atomic weight 27.08. Symbol Al.
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    aluminium
    aluminium This spelling is used widely throughout the world, and was used in the United States before 1927 where the preferred spelling is now: aluminum.
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