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It is a well known fact that bauxite was discovered in France near the village of “Les Baux de Provence” in 1822, by a chemist named Berthier, who found an ore which was rich in alumina and poor in iron. But only a few know that the original name was “Beauxite” after the name of the village which at that time was “Les Beaux”. This word was used for the first time in 1847 by A. Dufresnoy. The name of the village was changed to “Les Baux” around 1885, and finally, it was Sainte Claire Deville who, in 1862, made the name universally accepted to designate the aluminum ore.
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Régnier, J. (2016). Bauxite — Its Technical and Economical History During the Last Hundred Years. In: Donaldson, D., Raahauge, B.E. (eds) Essential Readings in Light Metals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48176-0_1
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