Moshe (not his real name, lest the wrong people read this) looks like any other religious Jewish man in Jerusalem â dark hair, dark beard, wire-rimmed glasses, poring over a Talmudic tome in a yeshiva.No one would suspect that he is the great-great-grandson of a former Shah of Iran.oshe (not his real name, lest the wrong people read this) looks like any other religious Jewish man in Jerusalem â dark hair, dark beard, wire-rimmed glasses, poring over a Talmudic tome in a yeshiva.
This article is about aluminium(III) oxide, Al 2 O 3. For other uses, see Aluminium oxide (compounds) . Aluminium oxide is a chemical compound of aluminium and oxygen with the chemical formula Al 2 O 3. It is the most commonly occurring of several aluminium oxides, and specifically identified as aluminium(III) oxide.
Alumina is used for the production of aluminium metal, through the HallâHÃ©roult electrochemical smelting process. It is also used in applications such as industrial and medical ceramics, sandpapers, pigments, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. The Bayer Process is the most economic means of obtaining alumina from bauxite. Other processes for obtaining alumina from metal ores are also in use in some refineries, particularly in China and Russia, although these make up a relatively small percentage of global production. The process stages are: