hydrated aluminum oxide

1. 1.

   white crystalline compound that occurs naturally as the mineral gibbsite

   Synonymsaluminum hydroxidealuminium hydroxidehydrated aluminium oxide

   Broaderhydroxide

Questions about hydrated aluminum oxide

What does hydrated aluminum oxide mean?

hydrated aluminum oxide means "white crystalline compound that occurs naturally as the mineral gibbsite".

What is another word for hydrated aluminum oxide?

Close synonyms include aluminum hydroxide, aluminium hydroxide, hydrated aluminium oxide. 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 hydrated aluminum oxide a common word?

hydrated aluminum oxide 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.