Aluminium hydroxide oxide explained

Aluminium hydroxide oxide or aluminium oxyhydroxide, AlO(OH) is found as one of two well defined crystalline phases, which are also known as the minerals boehmite and diaspore. The minerals are important constituents of the aluminium ore, bauxite.

List of related compounds and minerals

The aluminium oxides, oxide hydroxides, and hydroxides can be summarized as follows:

• aluminium oxides
  • corundum
• aluminium oxide hydroxides
  • diaspore (α-AlO(OH))
  • boehmite or böhmite (γ-AlO(OH))
  • akdalaite (once believed to be), also called tohdite
• aluminium hydroxides
  • gibbsite (often designated as γ-, but sometimes as α-,^[1] sometimes called hydrargillite or hydrargyllite)
  • bayerite (designated often as α- but sometimes as β-)
  • doyleite
  • nordstrandite

Notes and References

1. N.N. Greenwood and A. Earnshaw, "Chemistry of Elements", 2nd edition, Butterworth and Heinemann, 1997.