Simple chemical process makes synthetic cryolite by utilizing byproducts of one kind of silicon production process. Potential result of commercialization could be economic benefit to silicon industry or to aluminum industry, in which cryolite is used as flux.
Producing Cryolite From Waste Sodium Fluoride
NASA Tech Briefs ; 6 , 4
1982-12-01
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