noun
- Plural of bauxite; a clayey mineral that is the principal ore of aluminum.
Usage: Typically used in industrial and geological contexts.; Uncountable in singular form, but plural 'bauxites' refers to multiple deposits or samples.
Examples
- Australia and Guinea are major producers of bauxites.
- The mining company extracted tons of bauxites from the open pit.
- Bauxites contain aluminum oxide and are refined to produce pure aluminum.
- Different bauxites have varying concentrations of impurities.
- The refinery processes bauxites using the Bayer process.