What is "aluminum oxide"

Usage examples of "aluminum oxide".

He had even obtained pure nickel for the structural members, and Michael and Kurt had made some new gems from aluminum oxide which he'd had faceted by a local jeweler.

The result, therefore, of a conjunction of foil and ketchup is, as you can attest, a grayish-black mush of aluminum oxide.

The big, ungainly LTV was there one instant, and an instant later it was gone in a cloud of aluminum oxide smoke.

Tiny particles of aluminum oxide began to fall as snow on the carpet while the sink enamel pinged and spat under incandescent metal soup.

The other product is aluminum oxide, also common in solid rocket exhaust.

They towed long cylinders of buffed steel and alabaster aluminum oxide, or swiveled great clumps of electrical gear, or tugged transformers that, made to operate in cold vacuum, looked more like crusty brain coral than loops of gleaming copper and iron.

It forms a tough skin of aluminum oxide, which doesn't oxidize any more.

Powdered aluminum oxide, and arsenic sulfate in vaporized hydrocarbons expelled from the violent floor, filled the space between mesas.

Crystallized aluminum oxide with a small percentage of chromium or magnesium.

But Kidder had seen to it that they had nothing but aluminum oxide and a scattering of other elements, plus plenty of electric power.

But Kidder had seen to it that they had nothing but aluminum oxide and a scattering Of other elements, plus plenty of electric power.

Loan explained that it was made of aluminum oxide and interthreaded fibers of carbon, all nanocomputer-designed to reduce mass and increase strength.

It had cracked at least four different times, and each time mineral flows had been forced within its fracture zones under tremendous pressure: carbon, manganese silicate, beryllium, aluminum oxide.