The Aluminum Smelting Process and Innovative
2014-5-8u2002·u2002Industrial production of primary aluminum is carried out by the Hall–Héroult process, named after its inventors, who independently of each other, in 1886, developed and patented an electrolytic process in which aluminum oxide (or alumina, Al 2 O 3) is dissolved in an electrolyte consisting mainly of molten cryolite (Na 3 AlF 6) and aluminum fluoride (AlF 3).
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