A mineral form of aluminum oxyhydroxide that is an important ore of aluminum and a component of bauxite.
Named after Johann Bohm, the German chemist who first identified this mineral form in 1927, plus the standard mineralogical -ite suffix.
Boehmite is so abundant that whenever you use an aluminum can or foil, you're using a product that probably came from bohmite ore—it's one of the most economically important aluminum minerals on Earth.
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