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aluminum chloride

aluminum chloride is the alternative spelling of aluminium chloride.

Meaning of aluminium chloride

Noun

aluminium chloride (uncountable)

  1. AlCl, only exists in the gas phase when AlCl₃ is heated with aluminium.
  2. AlCl₃, the aluminium salt of hydrochloric acid; forms the covalent dimer Al₂Cl₆ when melted; it has very many industrial applications, including that of a catalyst in Friedel-Crafts reactions.

Questions about aluminum chloride

What is aluminum chloride the alternative spelling of?
Aluminum chloride is the alternative spelling of aluminium chloride.

Words near aluminum chloride in the dictionary

  1. aluminotypes
  2. aluminous
  3. aluminoxane
  4. aluminoxanes
  5. aluminum
  6. aluminum chloride
  7. aluminum foil
  8. aluminum foils
  9. aluminum hydride
  10. aluminum hydroxide
  11. aluminum hydroxides

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