Look up: cryolite

1. cryolite
   Rare granular crystalline mineral (sodium aluminium fluoride), Na₃AlF₆, used in the electrolytic reduction of bauxite to aluminium. It is chiefly found in Greenland. In the extraction of aluminium from the ore bauxite (impure aluminium oxide), the alumina (pure aluminium oxide) has to be molten for elec...
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2. cryolite
   [n] - a white mineral consisting of fluorides of aluminum and sodium
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3. cryolite
   obtained from Greenland, snow-white, shiny and almost transparent; is used as a flux in the electrolytic production of aluminium Category: Chemistry
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4. Cryolite
   Cry'o·lite noun [ Greek kry`os icy cold, frost + -lite : confer French cryolithe .] (Min.) A fluoride of sodium and aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; -- used as a source of soda and alumina.
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5. cryolite
   Greenland spar noun a white mineral consisting of fluorides of aluminum and sodium; a source of fluorine
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6. Cryolite
   • (n.) A fluoride of sodium and aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; -- used as a source of soda and alumina.
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7. cryolite
   colourless to white halide mineral, sodium aluminum fluoride (Na3AlF6). It occurs in a large deposit at Ivigtut, Greenland, and in small amounts in ... [3 related articles]
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8. cryolite
   cryolite With reference to its icy appearance, a fluoride of sodium and aluminum found in Greenland and used in the molten state in the electrolytic production of aluminum.
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9. cryolite
   cryolite or kryolite (both: krī'ulīt") [Gr.,=frost stone], mineral usually pure white or colorless but sometimes tinted in shades of pink, brown, or even black and having a luster like that of wax. Chemically, it is a double fluoride of sodium and aluminum, Na3AlF6. Its principal...
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10. Cryolite
    Cryolite is the fluoride of sodium and aluminium, it is found in Greenland in pale greyish-white or yellowish-brown cleavable masses often enclosing brown siderite and grey galena. It always occurs in pegmatites where it's probably a precipitate from fluoride rich solutions. It has been used as a so...
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11. Cryolite
    `Cryolite` (Na₃AlF₆, sodium hexafluoroaluminate) is an uncommon mineral identified with the once large deposit at Ivigtût on the west coast of Greenland, depleted by 1987. It was historically used as an ore of aluminium and later in the electrolytic processing of...
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