Aluminium carbonate
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Aluminum carbonate | |
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14455-29-9  | |
| ChemSpider | 10606614 |
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| Al2(CO3)3 | |
| Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa). | |
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Aluminium carbonate (Al2(CO3)3), is a carbonate of aluminium. It is not well characterized; one authority says that simple carbonates of aluminium, gallium and indium are not known.[1] Basic aluminium carbonate, the mineral dawsonite, is a known compound.
Preparation
There is no evidence that aluminium carbonate is formed in double decomposition reactions, soluble carbonates are sufficiently alkaline to precipitate aluminium hydroxide and produce carbon dioxide.[2] The reaction of aluminium sulfate and sodium bicarbonate forms carbon dioxide and aluminum hydroxide which stabilises the formation of a foam.[2] This reaction was the basis of an early fire extinguisher invented by Aleksandr Loran in 1904.
References
- ↑ Anthony John Downs, (1993), Chemistry of Aluminium, Gallium, Indium, and Thallium, Springer, ISBN 978-0-7514-0103-5
- 1 2 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IDsXBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA311&lpg=PA311&dq=existence+of+aluminium+carbonate&source=bl&ots=M4Bniin9rM&sig=F_kHdV_Itn9a-Xgz3cg1Pej145k&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6xFyVMiKAZPSaKHbgjg&ved=0CCkQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=existence%20of%20aluminium%20carbonate&f=false
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