Aluminum chloride
a yellow-white, crystalline, water-soluble solid that in its white hydrated form, AlCl 3 ⋅6H 2 O, is used chiefly as a wood preservative and in its yellow-white anhydrous form, AlCl 3 , chiefly as a catalyst.
Historical Examples
These syntheses afford another instance of the singular action of aluminum chloride in attacking the benzene nucleus.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 Various
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