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aluminum hydroxide

–noun Chemistry.
a crystalline, water-insoluble powder, Al(OH)3 or Al2O3·3H2O, obtained chiefly from bauxite: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, and printing inks, in dyeing, and in medicine as an antacid and in the treatment of ulcers.
Also called alumina trihydrate, aluminum hydrate, hydrated alumina.


Origin:
1870–75
aluminum hydroxide

noun
white crystalline compound that occurs naturally as the mineral gibbsite 

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