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The Chemie Linz AG process for producing aluminium fluoride.

The silica precipitates and the aluminium fluoride crystallises as the trihydrate. Heating to 500°C gives the anhydrous aluminium fluoride.

W. Büchner, R. Schliebs, G. Winter, K.H. Büchel, Industrial Inorganic Chemistry, VCH, 1989

2
Al(OH)3
  +  
H2SiF6(aq)
         
2
AlF3
  +  
SiO2
  +  
4
H2O
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