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Definition of Bauxite

1. Noun. A clay-like mineral; the chief ore of aluminum; composed of aluminum oxides and aluminum hydroxides; used as an abrasive and catalyst.

Definition of Bauxite

1. n. A ferruginous hydrate of alumina. It is largely used in the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat.

Definition of Bauxite

1. Noun. The principal ore of aluminium; a clay-like mineral, being a mixture of hydrated oxides and hydroxides. ¹

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Definition of Bauxite

1. an ore of aluminum [n -S] : BAUXITIC [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bauxite

Literary usage of Bauxite

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mineral Industry (1914)
"bauxite BY CH GORDON The mineral bauxite, still practically the only ... bauxite may consist of rounded concretionary grains ranging in size from that of a ..."

2. Political and Commercial Geology and the World's Mineral Resources by Josiah Edward Spurr (1920)
"bauxite is also the basis of an extensive chemical industry, ... A rapidly growing use for bauxite is in the manufacture of bauxite brick for furnace ..."

3. Transactions by North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers., Gerard H. Matthes (1905)
"bauxite has been vainly sought for many years in Calabria. In 1900, great masses of it were discovered by mere chance, at several localities in the Central ..."

4. Mineral Deposits by Waldemar Lindgren (1919)
"bauxite beds 10 feet in thickness have been observed; the mineral is clayey, dense, ... The annual production of bauxite in the United States has been ..."

5. Metamorphic Geology: A Text-book by Charles Kenneth Leith, Warren Judson Mead (1915)
"They are easily concentrated from the bauxite, because of their high specific gravity, by crushing and panning the ore and separating by means of a heavy ..."

6. Proceedings by Alabama Industrial and Scientific Society (1891)
"crops of bauxite at intervals on both of the lines of outcrops for is on the north-west edge of the south-east anticlinal, though it may be said to be in ..."

7. Economic Geology: With Special Reference to the United States by Heinrich Ries (1910)
"Until the discovery of bauxite, cryolite was the chief source of the metal, all of it being ... bauxite derives its name from Baux in southern France, ..."

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