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'''Bauxite''' used to be the only {{L|magma-safe}} {{L|stone}}. This made it highly valuable as the only practical source of magma-safe {{L|mechanism}}s to be used in {{L|floodgate}}s. However, nowadays, dwarves have a wide selection of hard to melt rocks, and can even make mechanisms from certain types of {{L|metal}} (including {{L|iron}} and {{L|steel}}), and as a result, bauxite is no longer so important.  
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'''Bauxite''' is a dark-red sedimentary {{L|stone}}. Once highly prized as the only practical source of {{L|magma-safe}} {{L|mechanism}}s to create magma-proof devices, its importance has declined with the addition of many new heat-resistant forms of stone as well as the ability to make {{L|metal}} mechanisms from {{L|iron}} and {{L|steel}}. Nevertheless, it is still used by some long-time players for nostalgia, and its rare, bloody appearance makes it an interesting aesthetic choice.
  
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Some older players might still prefer to use it for the sake of nostalgia, though, and its pleasing dark red color makes it look like the walls are always dripping with {{L|blood}}.
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Bauxite may contain both {{l|sapphire}} and {{l|ruby}}.
  
 
In real life, bauxite is an ore of {{L|aluminum}}, but the technology required to extract it is beyond the level possessed by dwarves.
 
In real life, bauxite is an ore of {{L|aluminum}}, but the technology required to extract it is beyond the level possessed by dwarves.
  
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Bauxite can also contain {{l|sapphire}} and/or {{l|ruby}}.
 
  
 
==In Real Life==
 
==In Real Life==

Revision as of 22:27, 10 November 2011

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Fire-safe Magma-safe
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Wikipedia article

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Bauxite is a dark-red sedimentary Template:L. Once highly prized as the only practical source of Template:L Template:Ls to create magma-proof devices, its importance has declined with the addition of many new heat-resistant forms of stone as well as the ability to make Template:L mechanisms from Template:L and Template:L. Nevertheless, it is still used by some long-time players for nostalgia, and its rare, bloody appearance makes it an interesting aesthetic choice.

Bauxite may contain both Template:L and Template:L.

In real life, bauxite is an ore of Template:L, but the technology required to extract it is beyond the level possessed by dwarves.


In Real Life

Bauxite is a stone comprised primarily of the minerals gibbsite (Aluminum Hydroxide: Al(OH)3), boehmite (Aluminum Oxide-Hydroxide: γ-AlO(OH)), and diaspore (Aluminum Oxide-Hydroxide: α-AlO(OH)) (none of which are individually present in Dwarf Fortress). Bauxite forms by the weathering and mineralization of various aluminum-rich soils or clays. Despite the correspondence in game, corundum, the mineral that makes up Template:L and Template:L (Aluminum Oxide: Al2O3) does not form in bauxite.

Extracting aluminum from bauxite, even in the most primitive way, requires the use of the Hall–Héroult process: the electrolysis of bauxite which has been dissolved into molten Template:L. The development of this process transformed aluminum from an exceptionally rare metal to a cheap, utilitarian material. Dwarves have not yet discovered electricity, therefore they cannot make use of electrolysis to get aluminum from bauxite. (If it were implemented, lightning might work)

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