Bauxite meaning

bôksīt
The principal ore of aluminum, composed mainly of hydrous aluminum oxides and aluminum hydroxides.
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A soft, whitish to reddish-brown rock consisting mainly of hydrous aluminum oxides and aluminum hydroxides along with silica, silt, iron hydroxides, and clay minerals. Bauxite forms from the breakdown of clays and is a major source of aluminum.
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The principal ore of aluminium; a clay-like mineral, being a mixture of hydrated oxides and hydroxides.
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A soft, claylike sedimentary rock, mainly hydrous aluminum hydroxide, that is the chief ore of aluminum.
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Origin of bauxite

  • After Les Baux , a commune of southeast France

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French from Les Baux in France.

    From Wiktionary

Bauxite Sentence Examples

  • Bauxite occurs also near Ballintoy.

  • Bauxite is a hydrated oxide of aluminium of the ideal composition, Al 2 0 3.2H 2 0.

  • After being dried at loo° C., Antrim bauxite contains from 33 to 60% of alumina, from 2 to 30% of ferric oxide, and from 7 to 24% of silica, the balance being titanic acid and water of combination.

  • Therefore while less energy is absorbed in its final reduction, more is needed in its initial preparation, and it is questionable whether the economy possible in the second stage would not be neutralized by the greater cost of the first stage in the whole operation of winning the metal from bauxite with the sulphide as the intermediary.

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