Definitions for bauxite

bauxite baux·ite

Spelling: [bawk-sahyt, boh-zahyt]
IPA: /ˈbɔk saɪt, ˈboʊ zaɪt/

Bauxite is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in bauxite (abeitux).

Definitions for bauxite

noun

  1. a rock consisting of aluminum oxides and hydroxides with various impurities: the principal ore of aluminum.

Origin of bauxite

1860-65; named after Les Baux, near Arles in S France; see -ite1

Examples for bauxite

France also has important reserves of bauxite in French Guiana.

The bauxite is in beds or strata which often cover the hills like a blanket.

bauxite and lateritic iron ores, for instance, are known to favor tropical climates.

The complete gradation from syenite to bauxite has been shown.

bauxite is exported to Canadian makers of aluminum and abrasives.

bauxite or aluminum ore is mined in France, and 60 per cent.

Alumina is the principal constituent of bauxite, the ore of aluminum, and of the natural abrasives, emery and corundum.

On an average six tons of bauxite are required to make one ton of metallic aluminum.

Cryolite is used today to form a molten bath in which the bauxite is electrolytically reduced to aluminum.

Alum clay or bauxite, from which aluminium is manufactured, is found in the same county.

Word Value for bauxite
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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