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:
1865–70

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the process or result of a chemical reaction to oxygen, or the deposit that forms on the surface of a metal as it oxidizes

a compound in which oxygen is bonded to one or more electropositive atoms

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aluminum chloride
noun
a chloride used as a wood preservative or catalyst

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