sodium fluoaluminate

sodium fluoaluminate
noun
: a crystalline complex salt Na3AlF6 that occurs in nature as cryolite, is also made synthetically, and is used chiefly in ceramics, in metallurgy especially as an electrolyte in the production of aluminum from alumina, and as an insecticide — called also sodium aluminum fluoride

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  • Sodium hexafluoroaluminate — Chembox new Name = Sodium hexafluoroaluminate ImageFile = Cryolite unit cell 3D balls.png ImageSize = 200px ImageName = Sodium hexafluoroaluminate unit cell OtherNames = sodium fluoaluminate sodium aluminofluoaluminate Cryolite Kryolite Section1 …   Wikipedia

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  • cryolithionite — ˌkrīōˈlithēəˌnīt, lə̇ˈthīə noun ( s) Etymology: alteration of earlier kryolithionite, from kryo cry + lithionite (obsolete synonym of lepidolite), from German lithonit, from obsolete New Latin lithion ( …   Useful english dictionary

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