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    Aluminum oxide, also known as alumina, has a very high electrical resistivity that increases with purity. Multiple sources report the resistivity of aluminum oxide to be approximately 1x1014 Ω·cm. Alumina has excellent corrosion resistance and insulation properties making it useful for applications such as electrical insulators, substrates, and abrasives. It is one of the most commonly used ceramic engineering materials due to its abundance, low cost, and desirable material properties.

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    Aluminum oxide, also known as alumina, has a very high electrical resistivity that increases with purity. Multiple sources report the resistivity of aluminum oxide to be approximately 1x1014 Ω·cm. Alumina has excellent corrosion resistance and insulation properties making it useful for applications such as electrical insulators, substrates, and abrasives. It is one of the most commonly used ceramic engineering materials due to its abundance, low cost, and desirable material properties.

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    Aluminum oxide, also known as alumina, has a very high electrical resistivity that increases with purity. Multiple sources report the resistivity of aluminum oxide to be approximately 1x1014 Ω·cm. Alumina has excellent corrosion resistance and insulation properties making it useful for applications such as electrical insulators, substrates, and abrasives. It is one of the most commonly used ceramic engineering materials due to its abundance, low cost, and desirable material properties.

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    Aluminum oxide, also known as alumina, has a very high electrical resistivity that increases with purity. Multiple sources report the resistivity of aluminum oxide to be approximately 1x1014 Ω·cm. Alumina has excellent corrosion resistance and insulation properties making it useful for applications such as electrical insulators, substrates, and abrasives. It is one of the most commonly used ceramic engineering materials due to its abundance, low cost, and desirable material properties.

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    The key takeaways are that aluminum oxide (alumina) has very high electrical resistivity that increases with purity, is chemically inert, and has a variety of industrial applications due to its properties.

    Common uses of aluminum oxide include high temperature electrical insulators, high voltage insulators, electronic substrates, thermometry sensors, grinding media, gas laser tubes, furnace liner tubes, and abrasion resistant tubes.

    Aluminum oxide is useful as an engineering ceramic because it is abundant, inexpensive, insoluble in water, resistant to weathering and acids, has good thermal conductivity, and is available in a variety of purity ranges and compositions to enhance properties like hardness or color.

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    Resistivity of Aluminum
    Oxide
    The Physics Factbook
    Edited by Glenn Elert -- Written by his students
    An educational, Fair Use website

    Bibliographic Entry

    Aluminum Oxide,
    Al2O3. Accuratus.
    19 May 2006.

    Material: Aluminum
    Oxide (Al2O3), Bulk.
    MEMS and
    Nanotechnology
    Clearinghouse. 19
    May 2006.

    Result
    (w/surrounding text)
    94% Aluminum Oxide
    Volume
    ohmcm
    Resistivity
    96% Aluminum Oxide
    Volume
    ohmcm
    Resistivity
    99.5% Aluminum Oxide
    Volume
    ohmcm
    Resistivity

    Alumina (Al2O3).
    AZoM. 19 May
    2006.
    http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2006/EuniceHuang.shtml

    >1014
    >1014

    2x104 2x1011 m

    >1014

    Resistivity at 20 (ohm.cm)
    >1014
    Electrical Properties

    1x1014 cm

    >1014

    [see table below]

    Alumina (Al2O3) Electrical Properties


    Material Information.
    Volume resistivity
    Goodfellow. 19 May @25C (Ohmcm)
    2006.

    Standardized
    Result

    1x1014 cm

    1x1014 cm

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    Alumina, 99.9%
    Al2O3. Matweb
    Material Property
    Data. 19 May 2006.

    Resistivity of Aluminum Oxide

    Electrical Properties
    Electrical 1e+014 ohmResistivity
    cm
    Electrical 2.5e+006 ohm- at
    Resistivity
    cm
    900

    2.5x106
    1x1014 cm

    Aluminum oxide, also known as alumina, is one of the most


    commonly used materials in engineering ceramics. Since
    minerals containing alumina include about 15% of the earth's
    crust, it is abundant and pretty much inexhaustible. With the
    addition of its affordable and cost effective price, aluminum
    oxide is a very popular material. It is also insoluble in water
    and has great resistance against weathering and strong acid.
    Alumina has an electrical resistivity of about 1x1014 cm. It
    has good thermal conductivity and can reduce thermal shock
    resistance. Alumina is very useful in that it is available in a
    variety of purity ranges from 94% to 99.9%. It is usually white,
    but is sometimes pink (88% alumina) and brown (96%
    alumina). The composition of aluminum oxide can be easily
    changed to enhance certain desirable material characteristics
    such as the hardness or color. It also has excellent size and
    shape capability, which is advantageous for engineering
    production.
    Aluminum oxide is an electrically insulating material with high
    resistivity that increases with purity With its high corrosion
    resistance, it does not wear easily, even against strong acid.
    Since aluminum oxide covers all aluminum metal, it is
    responsible for the metal's resistance to weathering. A thin
    layer of alumina will form on any exposed aluminum surface
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    and protects it from further oxidation. Diamond tools are


    needed to machine or grind alumina Thus, this material is
    typically used for high temperature electrical insulators, high
    voltage insulators, electronic substrates, thermometry
    sensors, and grinding media. It is also used for gas laser
    tubes, furnace liner tubes, abrasion resistant tube, elbow
    liners, laboratory instrument tubes and sample holders. It is
    an excellent material for the use of engineers and scientists.
    Property

    Electrical resistivity

    Electrical resistivity

    Electrical resistivity

    Value

    2e+11 *m

    2e+11 *m

    1e+11 *m

    Conditions

    Reference

    Ceramic,at
    temp = 100
    C

    CRC
    Materials
    Science
    and
    Engineering
    Handbook,
    p.565

    Ceramic,at
    temp = 100
    C

    CRC
    Materials
    Science
    and
    Engineering
    Handbook,
    p.565

    Ceramic,at
    temp = 300
    C

    CRC
    Materials
    Science
    and
    Engineering
    Handbook,
    p.565
    CRC
    Materials

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    Electrical resistivity

    Electrical resistivity

    Electrical resistivity

    6.3e+08 *m

    Ceramic,at
    temp = 500
    C

    Science
    and
    Engineering
    Handbook,
    p.565
    CRC
    Materials
    Science
    and
    Engineering
    Handbook,
    p.565

    5e+06 *m

    Ceramic,at
    temp = 700
    C

    20000 *m

    CRC
    Materials
    Ceramic,at
    Science
    temp = 1000
    and
    C
    Engineering
    Handbook,
    p.565

    Eunice Huang -- 2006


    Glenn Elert
    Author, Illustrator, Webmaster
    Chaos, E-World, Facts, Get Bent, Physics

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