Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An uncommon, white, vitreous natural fluoride of aluminum and sodium, Na3AlF6, nearly invisible in water in powdered form and used chiefly in the electrolytic recovery of aluminum.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fluorid of sodium and aluminium found in Greenland, where it forms an extensive bed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A fluoride of sodium and aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; -- used as a source of soda and alumina.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
mineral sodium aluminium fluoride (Na3AlF6).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a white mineral consisting of fluorides of aluminum and sodium; a source of fluorine
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Examples
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At the smelter, the aluminum oxide crystals are dissolved in a bath of something called cryolite (sodium aluminum fluoride) and zapped with enormous jolts of electricity (100,000 to 150,000 amps), which strips the oxygen from the aluminum.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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At the smelter, the aluminum oxide crystals are dissolved in a bath of something called cryolite (sodium aluminum fluoride) and zapped with enormous jolts of electricity (100,000 to 150,000 amps), which strips the oxygen from the aluminum.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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At the smelter, the aluminum oxide crystals are dissolved in a bath of something called cryolite (sodium aluminum fluoride) and zapped with enormous jolts of electricity (100,000 to 150,000 amps), which strips the oxygen from the aluminum.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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At the smelter, the aluminum oxide crystals are dissolved in a bath of something called cryolite (sodium aluminum fluoride) and zapped with enormous jolts of electricity (100,000 to 150,000 amps), which strips the oxygen from the aluminum.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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It was at first manufactured from common clay, which contains about one-fourth its weight of aluminum, but in 1855 Rose announced to the scientific world that it could be obtained from a material called "cryolite," found in Greenland in large quantities, imported into Germany under the name of "mineral soda," and used as a washing soda and in the manufacture of soap.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 Various
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At length he tried a stone from Greenland called "cryolite," which had already been used for making a kind of porcelain.
Diggers in the Earth Eva March Tappan 1892
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This process also breaks off bits of the fluorine from the cryolite, which escapes the smelter in the form of perfluorocarbons PFCs—these are the most noxious of greenhouse gases, trapping thousands of times more heat than carbon dioxide.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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This process also breaks off bits of the fluorine from the cryolite, which escapes the smelter in the form of perfluorocarbons PFCs—these are the most noxious of greenhouse gases, trapping thousands of times more heat than carbon dioxide.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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This process also breaks off bits of the fluorine from the cryolite, which escapes the smelter in the form of perfluorocarbons PFCs—these are the most noxious of greenhouse gases, trapping thousands of times more heat than carbon dioxide.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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This process also breaks off bits of the fluorine from the cryolite, which escapes the smelter in the form of perfluorocarbons PFCs—these are the most noxious of greenhouse gases, trapping thousands of times more heat than carbon dioxide.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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