(inorganic chemistry) AlCl3 or Al2Cl6 A deliquescent compound in the form of white to colorless hexagonal crystals; fumes in air and reacts explosively with water; used as a catalyst.
aluminum chloride
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
a chloride used as a wood preservative or catalyst
Synonym: aluminium chloride
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- aluminum halide (inorganic chemistry)
- butane vapor-phase isomerization (chemical engineering)
- cadwaladerite (mineralogy)
- chloraluminite (mineralogy)
- Fries rearrangement (organic chemistry)
- Friedel-Crafts reaction (organic chemistry)
- koenenite (mineralogy)
- thiënone
- lithium aluminum hydride (inorganic chemistry)
- Gatterman reaction (organic chemistry)
- brominating agent (chemistry)
- spangolite (mineralogy)
- trudellite (mineralogy)
- Charles Friedel (French chemist)
