Crossword-Solution: ALUMINA 7 letters, 23 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Alumina n. One of the earths, consisting of two parts of aluminium
and three of oxygen, Al2O3.

We have 23 clues for the answer “ALUMINA”

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aluminium oxide 1 answer
White powder used as an abrasive. 1 answer
Ruby, essentially 1 answer
Bauxite component 1 answer
ROTTENSTONE constituent 1 answer
Processed bauxite 1 answer
Oxide in rubies and sapphires 1 answer
Earthy substance 1 answer
Oxide found in rubies and sapphires 1 answer
OCHRE constituent 2 answers
Bauxite 3 answers
SLAG constituent 4 answers
CHLORITE, constituent of 4 answers
Abrasive material. 6 answers
Sapphire. 7 answers
CLAY constituent 8 answers
CEMENT mixing material 9 answers
Corundum 9 answers
CORUNDUM GEM 10 answers
ANY OF VARIOUS FORMS OF ALUMINUM OXIDE OCCURRING NATURALLY AS CORUNDUM 10 answers
COMPONENT BAUXITE 10 answers
BAUXITE GIANT 11 answers
Ruby 20 answers
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Chloride tungsten or titanium passed through hot tube, depositing a film of metal on the carbon; or filaments of zirconia oxide, or alumina or magnesia, thoria or other infusible oxides mixed or separate, and obtained by moistening and squirting through a die, are thus coated with above metals and used for incandescent lamps.
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin 2006
Gary COOPER embassy: Jamaica Mutual Life Center, 2 Oxford Road, 3rd floor, Kingston mailing address : use embassy street address telephone: [1] (876) 929-4850 through 4859 FAX: [1] (876) 926-6743 Flag description: diagonal yellow cross divides the flag into four triangles - green (top and bottom) and black (hoist side and outer side) Economy Economy - overview: Key sectors in this island economy are bauxite (alumina and bauxite account for more than half of exports) and tourism.
The 1997 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 2010
And now, can you advise me how to make soil approximately free of all the substances which plants naturally absorb? I suppose white silver sand, sold for cleaning harness, etc., is nearly pure silica, but what am I to do for alumina? Without some alumina I imagine that it would be impossible to keep the soil damp and fit for the growth of plants.
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II (of II) Charles Darwin 2000
Rose, of sulphate of iron under two forms, and of the sulphates of copper and alumina (Meyen’s “Reise” etc.
Geological Observations on South America Charles Darwin 2001
Argillaceous Rocks.—Clay, strictly speaking, is a mixture of silex or flint with a large proportion, usually about one fourth, of alumina, or argil; but in common language, any earth which possesses sufficient ductility, when kneaded up with water, to be fashioned like paste by the hand, or by the potter’s lathe, is called a _clay_; and such clays vary greatly in their composition, and are, in general, nothing more than mud derived from the decomposition or wearing down of rocks.
The Student’s Elements of Geology Sir Charles Lyell 2001
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