bauxite

bauxite
   An off-white to dark red brown weathered detritus or rock composed of aluminum oxides (mainly gibbsite with some boehmite and diaspore), iron hydroxides, silica, silt, and especially clay minerals. Bauxite originates in tropical and subtropical environments as highly weathered residue from carbonate or silicate rocks and can occur in concretionary, earthy, pisolitic, or oolitic forms.
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  • Bauxite — ou minerai d aluminium Bauxite (Hérault) avec des pisolites …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Bauxite — is the most important aluminium ore. It consists largely of the minerals gibbsite Al(OH)3, boehmite γ AlO(OH), and diaspore α AlO(OH), together with the iron oxides goethite and hematite, the clay mineral kaolinite and small amounts of anatase… …   Wikipedia

  • bauxite — [ boksit ] n. f. • 1847; des Baux de Provence ♦ Roche siliceuse alumineuse formée surtout d alumine, plus ou moins riche en oxydes de fer (bauxite rouge), en titane et en vanadium. La bauxite, principal minerai d aluminium. ● bauxite nom féminin… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Bauxite — Bauxite, AR U.S. town in Arkansas Population (2000): 432 Housing Units (2000): 171 Land area (2000): 2.392685 sq. miles (6.197025 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.056432 sq. miles (0.146158 sq. km) Total area (2000): 2.449117 sq. miles (6.343183 sq.… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Bauxite, AR — U.S. town in Arkansas Population (2000): 432 Housing Units (2000): 171 Land area (2000): 2.392685 sq. miles (6.197025 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.056432 sq. miles (0.146158 sq. km) Total area (2000): 2.449117 sq. miles (6.343183 sq. km) FIPS… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • bauxite — 1861, clayey mineral containing aluminum, from Fr. bauxite (1821), from Les Baux, near Soles, where it was first found. The place name is from Prov. Li Baus, lit. the precipices …   Etymology dictionary

  • Bauxite — Baux ite, Beauxite Beaux ite,n. [F., fr. Baux or Beaux, near Arles.] (Min.) A ferruginous hydrate of alumina. It is the most commonly used ore for the preparation of aluminum and alumina. It is also used for the lining of furnaces which are… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Bauxite — Bauxite. См. Боксит. (Источник: «Металлы и сплавы. Справочник.» Под редакцией Ю.П. Солнцева; НПО Профессионал , НПО Мир и семья ; Санкт Петербург, 2003 г.) …   Словарь металлургических терминов

  • bauxite — s. f. [Mineralogia] Hidróxido de alumínio, filão desse metal. (Serve para descorar e dessulfurar gorduras minerais. A América do Sul satisfaz um quinto do consumo mundial de bauxita.)   ‣ Etimologia: Baux, topônimo + ite   ♦ Grafia no Brasil:… …   Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa

  • bauxite — ► NOUN ▪ a clayey rock that is the chief ore of aluminium. ORIGIN from Les Baux, a village in SE France, where it was first found …   English terms dictionary

  • bauxite — [bôks′īt΄, bō′zīt΄] n. [Fr, after (Les) Baux, town near Arles, France] a soft, claylike sedimentary rock, mainly hydrous aluminum hydroxide, that is the chief ore of aluminum …   English World dictionary

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