alumina
See also: alúmina
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From (combining form of) Latin alumen + -a.
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alumina (countable and uncountable, plural aluminas)
- Aluminum oxide, especially when used in mining, material sciences or ceramics, a refractory solid compound.
- 1875, Journal of the Bath and West of England Society and Southern Counties Association for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, volumes 7-8, page 133:
- The apocrenates of iron and manganese are slightly soluble; those of lime, magnesia and alumina are insoluble.
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aluminum oxide
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alumina
- third-person singular past historic of aluminer
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alūmina
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- Hyphenation: a‧lu‧mi‧na
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alumina f (plural aluminas)