What's the difference between aluminum and bauxite?

Aluminum


Definition:

  • (n.) See Aluminium.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A retrospective study was done in 86 patients on dialysis in order to evaluate the doses of aluminum hydroxide (OH3 Al) received to achieve a better serum phosphate control.
  • (2) These results suggest that aluminum is able to gain access to the central nervous system under normal physiological conditions.
  • (3) Marked declines in stainable bone-surface aluminum were associated with increases in bone formation rate and osteoblastic osteoid following deferoxamine.
  • (4) This is suggested by the fact that patients with overt hyperparathyroidism are protected from developing aluminum-related bone disease even when they are given large parenteral loads of aluminum.
  • (5) The 8 men and 3 women were clinically stable, were known to be compliant, and had no clinical evidence of aluminum overload; they were not receiving vitamin D supplements; and they had been on dialysis for an average of 65.6 months (range: 13-188 months).
  • (6) The neurotransmitter alterations which accompany aluminum neurofibrillary degeneration were examined in order to assess how closely they mimic those of Alzheimer's disease.
  • (7) Children with renal failure, on aluminum supplementation, should be carefully monitored for toxicity.
  • (8) From the existing data, 2 g deferoxamine administration intraperitoneally three times per week in the overnight exchange appears to provide the maximum aluminum removal for minimum deferoxamine dosage.
  • (9) After exposure to 400 microM aluminum lactate and removal of unbound aluminum, human cytoskeletal proteins were degraded two- to threefold more slowly by calpain.
  • (10) BDF1 mice were immunized with a protein antigen, such as ovalbumin (OA) or keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), absorbed to aluminum hydroxide gel, and their spleen cells were stimulated by homologous antigen for the formation of glycosylation-enhancing factor (GEF).
  • (11) Chronic dietary deficiency of calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) with excessive intake of aluminum (Al) and manganese (Mn) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of high incidence amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in the Western Pacific.
  • (12) The growth plates did not increase in width despite the presence of osteomalacia and histologic evidence of extensive deposition of aluminum in bone.
  • (13) The monovalent serovar C aluminum-hydroxide-gel vaccine also gave significant protection (94%) against a serovar C challenge.
  • (14) Two different prototypes of columella materials made from aluminum oxide ceramics were newly designed by the author for ossicular reconstruction.
  • (15) The trienone XIII was subsequently epoxidised with alkaline hydrogen peroxide and m-chloroperbenzoic acid to give diepoxide XV which was reduced with aluminum amalgam to the final product V.
  • (16) To test the technique, a feasibility study was performed with known thicknesses of aluminum (simulating bone), lucite (simulating tissue), and polyethylene (simulating fat).
  • (17) The dissolution t50 and various pharmacokinetic parameters showed directly compressible starch and carboxymethylstarch to be the most effective disintegrants in the concentrations employed while magnesium aluminum silicate and microcrystalline cellulose were about equal but less effective than the previous disintegrants.
  • (18) when an aluminum plate is imaged, forms the basic Q.C.
  • (19) The effect of aluminum phosphate on the bioavailability of ranitidine has been investigated in 10 young, healthy volunteers.
  • (20) Furthermore, a Gh.PLC complex can be induced by incubation with aluminum fluoride in a detergent solution and partially purified without the dissociation of related proteins.

Bauxite


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Beauxite

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Logging, cattle farming and soy plantations are key, plus the increased construction of dams and road, and shifting patterns of farming for local people and mining (for diamonds, bauxite, manganese, iron, tin, copper, lead and gold).
  • (2) The book lets you know how sewage gets around under the city streets and how aluminium is made (you have to get bauxite from Jamaica, then ship it to a place with lots of electricity, like the Pacific north west).
  • (3) Hungary declared a state of emergency in three counties on Tuesday after the sludge, strongly caustic waste from bauxite refining, hit Kolontar, Devecser and other villages 100 miles west of the capital.
  • (4) Among the other campaign groups attacking the company was Survival International which continued to highlight Vedanta's efforts to mine bauxite in India's Niyamgiri hill , which an indigenous tribe considers to be sacred.
  • (5) Oil, gas, coal, aluminium, bauxite, nickel, iron ore, zinc, copper, grain, rice, sugar : Glencore and its subsidiaries have a hand not just in buying and selling all of these, but in producing, extracting and transporting them.
  • (6) Noel Pearson on Adam Goodes booing: Australia is ‘looking into the abyss’ Read more Yunupingu helped draft the first bark petition, presented to the Australian parliament in 1963 to protest bauxite mining on Yolngu land.
  • (7) Environmental groups accused MAL Zrt, the owner of the Ajkai Timfoldgyar alumina plant, of irresponsibility, and said they intended to block its plans to expand bauxite mining operations in Nyírád, a village in Veszprém county, western Hungary.
  • (8) What would happen if at some point in the future the Jamaican (or any other global south) government decided to nationalise what little bauxite (or other commodity) it has left, or to default on its IMF repayments?
  • (9) The opposition blames neglect and poor maintenance, while alleging mismanagement and corruption at struggling state-owned aluminium, iron and bauxite foundries in Bolivar.
  • (10) It's this understanding that allows us to continue to talk about money as if it were a limited resource like bauxite or petroleum, to say "there's just not enough money" to fund social programmes, to speak of the immorality of government debt or of public spending "crowding out" the private sector.
  • (11) Vedanta's alumina refinery is sourcing bauxite from other locations in the state, but even here it has been accused of wrongdoing.
  • (12) In general, levels of these and other metals were higher near a bauxite treatment plant.
  • (13) "Vedanta's planned bauxite mine in the holy mountain of Niyamgiri is a social and environmental disaster.
  • (14) The patients had worked in bauxite smelting for Al2O3 production and the preparation of synthetic abrasives (8 cases), in milling using synthetic abrasives (1 case) in the cold grinding of aluminium for paint production (3 cases) and in the electrolytic processing of aluminium (1 case).
  • (15) The authors examined a group of 40 miners who were being working at an Apulian bauxite mine, presently inactive.
  • (16) Concentrations of 226Ra, 232Th, and 40K measured in bauxite waste, local building materials, and soils are presented and used in model equations to estimate the effective gamma dose-equivalent increments over background in the center of a standard-sized room in a prototype house.
  • (17) The Dongria Kondh tribe yesterday appealed to Avatar director James Cameron to help them stop Vedanta from opening a nearby bauxite mine on their sacred land.
  • (18) Acetate hemodialysis alone, combined with hemoperfusion, or associated once a week with plasma-perfusion sessions using an activated bauxite cartridge, bicarbonate dialysis either in single pass or in recirculating system (40 L) and biofiltration, were the depurative treatments employed.
  • (19) A cross-sectional study of 1,142 male employees at the Arkansas Operations of a large aluminum production company examined the effect on pulmonary function of chronic exposure to total dust produced in the mining and refining of bauxite and the production of alumina chemicals.
  • (20) Instead it depicts – in a style that is socialist realist in inspiration – the figure of a miner in big boots and helmet, weight behind a drill, marking the passing of the region's bauxite mines, the last of which closed in 1990.

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