aluminum chloride

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   a chloride used as a wood preservative or catalyst

   Synonymsaluminium chloride

   Broaderchloride

Questions about aluminum chloride

What does aluminum chloride mean?

aluminum chloride means "a chloride used as a wood preservative or catalyst".

What is another word for aluminum chloride?

Close synonyms include aluminium chloride. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aluminum chloride a common word?

aluminum chloride is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.