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Aluminum oxide

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powder, 99.99% trace metals basis

Synonym(s):

Alumina

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Linear Formula:
Al2O3
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
101.96
PubChem Substance ID:
eCl@ss:
38120402
UNSPSC Code:
12352311
NACRES:
SB.52
EC Number:
215-691-6
MDL number:
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99.99% trace metals basis

form

powder

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2040 °C (lit.)

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SMILES string

O=[Al]O[Al]=O

InChI

1S/2Al.3O

InChI key

TWNQGVIAIRXVLR-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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General description

Aluminum oxide (Al2O3), also known as alumina. It is commonly used in various rubber, plastics, ceramics, and refractory materials for reinforcement hardening. It can also be used as a filler or component in polymer or inorganic composite materials, as a catalyst or catalyst support, as an adsorbent, etc.
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Application

Aluminum oxide is used as
  • Filler for plastics and a common ingredient in sunscreen and many cosmetics.
  • As a catalyst for alcohol dehydration in the Claus process.
  • As a catalyst in the conversion of urea to ammonia.

Features and Benefits

Aluminum oxide has:
  • High porosity
  • High surface area
  • Acidic and basic property

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

Storage Class

13 - Non Combustible Solids


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Mobeen Murtaza et al.
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 25(18) (2020-09-26)
Water-based drilling fluids are extensively used for drilling oil and gas wells. However, water-based muds cause clay swelling, which severely affects the stability of wellbore. Due to two adsorption positions, it is expected that cationic gemini surfactants can reduce the
Dehydration of 2-butanol by a sulfated zirconia/γ-alumina mixed metal oxide catalyst inside a gas chromatograph injection port.
Skrdla PJ and Lindemann C.
Applied Catalysis A: General, 246(2), 227-235 (2003)
Thermoanalytical studies of water on activated alumina, Brockmann I-V,(acid, neutral, basic) from- 60? to+ 700? C.
Hampson JW and Bleam WF.
Thermochimica Acta, 288(1), 179-189 (1996)
Prescott R and Graham MJ.
Oxidation of Metals, 38(3-4), 233-254 (1992)
Jaakko Akola et al.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(25), 10129-10134 (2013-06-01)
Glass formation in the CaO-Al2O3 system represents an important phenomenon because it does not contain typical network-forming cations. We have produced structural models of CaO-Al2O3 glasses using combined density functional theory-reverse Monte Carlo simulations and obtained structures that reproduce experiments

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