A fluoride of sodium and aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; -- used as a source of soda and alumina.
A white mineral used in making aluminum.
A mineral containing sodium, aluminum, and florine that is added to some grinding wheels and coated abrasives as a solid lubricant grinding aid.
A white mineral consisting of fluorides of aluminium and sodium; a source of fluorine. Cryolite is also widely used in metallurgy for electrolytic production of aluminium.
Salts-based flux (e.g. potassium aluminium fluoride).
Cryolite (Na3AlF6, sodium aluminium fluoride) is an uncommon mineral of very limited natural distribution. It is mostly identified with the once large deposit at Ivigtût on the west coast of Greenland, which ran out in 1987.
