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  <version>1.0</version>
  <creation_date>2010-04-08 22:10:38 UTC</creation_date>
  <update_date>2025-11-18 23:43:17 UTC</update_date>
  <accession>FDB013295</accession>
  <name>Aluminium hydroxide</name>
  <description>It is used in foods as a buffer, neutralising agent or firming agent

Aluminium hydroxide is an intermediate product in the Bayer process. In this process, bauxite is dissolved in hot sodium hydroxide solution, and insolubilities are filtered off. On cooling, aluminium hydroxide precipitates. The aluminium hydroxide is further calcined to give alumina, which may be smelted in the Hall-Héroult process in order to produce aluminium.</description>
  <synonyms>
    <synonym>aluminium(3+) hydroxide</synonym>
    <synonym>Aluminium(III) hydroxide</synonym>
    <synonym>Aluminum hydroxide</synonym>
    <synonym>Aluminum hydroxide (Al(OH)3)</synonym>
    <synonym>Aluminum hydroxide (usp)</synonym>
    <synonym>Aluminum hydroxide hydrate</synonym>
    <synonym>Aluminum trihydroxide</synonym>
    <synonym>Aluminum(III) hydroxide</synonym>
    <synonym>Di-mu-hydroxytetrahydroxydialuminum</synonym>
    <synonym>Trihydroxidoaluminium</synonym>
    <synonym>Trihydroxyaluminum</synonym>
  </synonyms>
  <chemical_formula>AlH3O3</chemical_formula>
  <average_molecular_weight>78.0036</average_molecular_weight>
  <monisotopic_moleculate_weight>77.989757403</monisotopic_moleculate_weight>
  <iupac_name>aluminium(3+) ion trihydroxide</iupac_name>
  <traditional_iupac>aluminium(3+) ion trihydroxide</traditional_iupac>
  <cas_registry_number>21645-51-2</cas_registry_number>
  <smiles>[OH-].[OH-].[OH-].[Al+3]</smiles>
  <inchi>InChI=1S/Al.3H2O/h;3*1H2/q+3;;;/p-3</inchi>
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    <description> belongs to the class of inorganic compounds known as post-transition metal hydroxides. These are inorganic compounds in which the largest oxoanion is hydroxide, and in which the heaviest atom not in an oxoanion is a post-transition metal.</description>
    <direct_parent>Post-transition metal hydroxides</direct_parent>
    <kingdom>Inorganic compounds</kingdom>
    <super_class>Mixed metal/non-metal compounds</super_class>
    <class>Post-transition metal oxoanionic compounds</class>
    <sub_class>Post-transition metal hydroxides</sub_class>
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    <alternative_parents>
      <alternative_parent>Inorganic hydrides</alternative_parent>
      <alternative_parent>Inorganic oxides</alternative_parent>
      <alternative_parent>Inorganic salts</alternative_parent>
      <alternative_parent>Post-transition metal salts</alternative_parent>
    </alternative_parents>
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      <substituent>Inorganic hydride</substituent>
      <substituent>Inorganic oxide</substituent>
      <substituent>Inorganic post-transition metal salt</substituent>
      <substituent>Inorganic salt</substituent>
      <substituent>Post-transition metal hydroxide</substituent>
    </substituents>
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      <external_descriptor>aluminium hydroxides</external_descriptor>
    </external_descriptors>
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