Red mud: Toxic waste of aluminum refining

Thursday, October 7, 2010 - 16:01 in Physics & Chemistry

Red mud is a toxic byproduct of the process that refines bauxite, raw aluminum ore, into aluminum oxide, or alumina.

Read the whole article on CBC: Technology & Science

More from CBC: Technology & Science

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net