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Synthesis Aluminium chloride is manufactured on a large scale by the exothermic reaction of aluminium metal with chlorine or hydrogen chloride at temperatures between 650 to 750 °C.[3] 2 Al + 3 Cl2 → 2 AlCl3 2 Al + 6 HCl → 2 AlCl3 + 3 H2 In the US in 1993, approximately 21,000 tons were produced, not counting the amounts consumed in the production of aluminium. Hydrated aluminium trichloride is prepared by dissolving aluminium oxides in hydrochloric acid. Heating this solid does not produce anhydrous aluminium trichloride, the hexahydrate decomposes to aluminium oxide when heated to 300 °C: 2 AlCl3 + 3 H2O → Al2O3 + 6 HCl Aluminium also forms a lower chloride, aluminium(I) chloride (AlCl), but this is very unstable and only known in the vapour phase.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 06:37:56 +0000

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