cryolite noun. ['krʌɪǝlʌɪt] E19.
[from CRYO- + -LITE: named from large deposits in Greenland.]
Mineralogy. A monoclinic fluoride of sodium and aluminium which occurs usu. as white or colourless massive deposits and is used as a flux in the electrolytic smelting of aluminium.

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