aluminium hydroxide
Noun
Meaning
white crystalline compound that occurs naturally as the mineral gibbsite
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After separation of the residue by filtering, pure gibbsite is precipitated when the liquid is cooled, and then seeded with fine-grained aluminium hydroxide.
Basic aluminium hydroxide AlO(OH), which may be present in bauxite, is also amphoteric.
This is an example of Le Châtelier's principle in action: Increasing the concentration of the hydroxide ion causes more aluminium hydroxide to precipitate, which removes hydroxide from the solution.