Definitions for bauxites

bauxites baux·ite

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

Bauxites is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 259 anagrams from letters in bauxites (abeistux).

Definitions for bauxites

noun

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

Origin of bauxites

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

Examples for bauxites

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

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

France also has important reserves of bauxite in French Guiana.

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

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

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

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

The complete gradation from syenite to bauxite has been shown.

bauxite is exported to Canadian makers of aluminum and abrasives.

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

Word Value for bauxites
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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