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− | '''Bauxite''' | + | '''Bauxite''' used to be the only {{L|magma-safe}} {{L|stone}}. This made it highly valuable as the only practical source of magma-safe {{L|mechanism}}s to be used in {{L|floodgate}}s. However, nowadays, dwarves have a wide selection of hard to melt rocks, and can even make mechanisms from certain types of {{L|metal}} (including {{L|iron}} and {{L|steel}}), and as a result, bauxite is no longer so important. |
− | + | Some older players might still prefer to use it for the sake of nostalgia, though, and its pleasing dark red color makes it look like the walls are always dripping with {{L|blood}}. | |
− | In real life, bauxite is an ore of | + | In real life, bauxite is an ore of {{L|aluminum}}, but the technology required to extract it is beyond the level possessed by dwarves. |
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+ | Bauxite can also contain {{l|sapphire}} and/or {{l|ruby}}. | ||
==In Real Life== | ==In Real Life== | ||
− | Bauxite is a stone comprised primarily of the minerals gibbsite (Aluminum Hydroxide: Al(OH)<sub>3</sub>), boehmite (Aluminum Oxide-Hydroxide: | + | Bauxite is a stone comprised primarily of the minerals gibbsite (Aluminum Hydroxide: Al(OH)<sub>3</sub>), boehmite (Aluminum Oxide-Hydroxide: AlO(OH)), and diaspore (Aluminum Oxide-Hydroxide: AlO(OH)) (none of which are individually present in Dwarf Fortress). Bauxite forms by the weathering and mineralization of various aluminum-rich soils or clays. Despite the correspondence in game, corundum, the mineral that makes up {{L|ruby}} and {{L|sapphire}} (Aluminum Oxide: Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>) does '''not''' form in bauxite. |
− | Extracting aluminum from bauxite, even in the most primitive way, requires the use of the Hall–Héroult process: the electrolysis of bauxite which has been dissolved into molten | + | Extracting aluminum from bauxite, even in the most primitive way, requires the use of the Hall–Héroult process: the electrolysis of bauxite which has been dissolved into molten {{L|cryolite}}. Dwarves have not yet discovered electricity, therefore they cannot make use of electrolysis to get aluminum from bauxite. (If it were implemented, lightning might work) |
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