ALUMINIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aluminium mean? 

• ALUMINIUM (noun)
  The noun ALUMINIUM has 1 sense:

1. a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite

  Familiarity information: ALUMINIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALUMINIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

Al; aluminium; aluminum; atomic number 13

Hypernyms ("aluminium" is a kind of...):

metal; metallic element (any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aluminium"):

alum; potash alum; potassium alum (a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminum)

alum; ammonia alum; ammonium alum (a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum)

Holonyms ("aluminium" is a substance of...):

aluminium foil; aluminum foil; tin foil (foil made of aluminum)

bauxite (a clay-like mineral; the chief ore of aluminum; composed of aluminum oxides and aluminum hydroxides; used as an abrasive and catalyst)

Duralumin (an aluminum-based alloy)

 Context examples 

Cosmic dust is mainly composed of silicon, carbon and aluminium, in grains as small as a millionth of a centimetre across.

(Ancient Stardust Sheds Light on the First Stars, ESO)

The researchers looked at how aluminium and chromium were zoned in the crystals and realised that this pattern was telling them something exciting and new about magma storage time.

(‘Crystal clocks’ used to time magma storage before volcanic eruptions, University of Cambridge)

There were three main alloy groups in the by-product, sometimes with small amounts of other metals mixed in: iron-aluminium, iron-silicon, and calcium-silicon-aluminium.

(Scientists Find Way to Extract Oxygen from Moon Dirt, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Upon topical application of F511 cream, aluminium chlorohydrate forms a gel matrix in the sweat gland which subsequently reduces, then stops the flow of water.

(Antiperspirant Cream F511, NCI Thesaurus)

In alkaline solution, this agent exhibits strong chelating activities towards anions, i.e. calcium, iron, aluminium, copper, and other heavy metals.

(Gluconic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

Being radioactive, aluminium-26 will decay to become more stable and in this process one of the protons in the nucleus decays into a neutron.

(Stellar Corpse Reveals Origin of Radioactive Molecules, ESO)

Here’s the record of the Tarleton murders, and the case of Vamberry, the wine merchant, and the adventure of the old Russian woman, and the singular affair of the aluminium crutch, as well as a full account of Ricoletti of the club-foot, and his abominable wife.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Specifically, they looked at the rates of diffusion of aluminium and chromium within the crystals and how these elements are ‘zoned’.

(‘Crystal clocks’ used to time magma storage before volcanic eruptions, University of Cambridge)

The radioactive part of the molecule is an isotope of aluminium.

(Stellar Corpse Reveals Origin of Radioactive Molecules, ESO)

There was a box of vestas, two inches of tallow candle, an A.D.P. briar-root pipe, a pouch of seal-skin with half an ounce of long-cut Cavendish, a silver watch with a gold chain, five sovereigns in gold, an aluminium pencil-case, a few papers, and an ivory-handled knife with a very delicate, inflexible blade marked Weiss & Co., London.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)