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cryolite

[ UK /kɹˈa‍ɪəlˌa‍ɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹaɪəˌɫaɪt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a white mineral consisting of fluorides of aluminum and sodium; a source of fluorine

How To Use cryolite In A Sentence

  • The deposit at the Eureka tunnel was mined for cryolite and thomsenolite, which were used as a flux in the manufacture of glass bottles.
  • The deposit at the Eureka tunnel was mined for cryolite and thomsenolite, which were used as a flux in the manufacture of glass bottles.
  • The answer turned out to be aluminum, which would bring its own raw materials with it -- bauxite from the tropics, cryolite from Greenland, petroleum coke from Texas, and would require from the Saguenay only its wasting water power and a tidewater port for the entrance of its supplies. Building Frontiers with Aluminum
  • It was at first manufactured from common clay, which contains about one-fourth its weight of aluminum, but in 1855 Rose announced to the scientific world that it could be obtained from a material called "cryolite," found in Greenland in large quantities, imported into Germany under the name of "mineral soda," and used as a washing soda and in the manufacture of soap. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882
  • Potroom asthma has been recognized for many years in workers employed in the production of aluminum smelting, where the alumina is partially dissolved in an electrolyte of molten cryolite at about 960°C.
  • At the smelter, the aluminum oxide crystals are dissolved in a bath of something called cryolite (sodium aluminum fluoride) and zapped with enormous jolts of electricity (100,000 to 150,000 amps), which strips the oxygen from the aluminum. THE STORY OF STUFF
  • Hall found that aluminum oxide will melt at a much lower temperature if it is first mixed with a mineral known as cryolite.
  • When Pauly completed his study of ‘old’ specimens of the fluoride minerals, he had found three unknowns with a cubic habit that were similar to minerals in the cryolite ore from Ivigtut, Greenland.
  • Fluorine never occurs as an element in nature, but is found in minerals such as fluorspar, fluorapatite, and cryolite.
  • Mathematic models about the relationships between liquidus temperature and their components and cryolite ratio computer.
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