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Aluminium sulfate, an Uncommon card
Aluminium sulfate is a salt with the formula Al23. It is soluble in water and is mainly used as a coagulating agent in the purification of drinking water and wastewater treatment plants, and also in paper manufacturing.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 61
- DEF
- 42
- Power
- 103
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 46,000
Power 103 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Aluminium sulfate quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Aluminium sulfate card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Aluminium sulfate is rarely, if ever, encountered as the ______ salt.
Answer
anhydrous. Aluminium sulfate is rarely, if ever, encountered as the anhydrous salt. From the Aluminium sulfate article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Activation energy. Activation energy 64 · Aluminium sulfate 61 · Tower 58 · Ammonium acetate 53 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Bicarbonate. Bicarbonate 92,000 · Cofferdam 58,000 · Aluminium sulfate 46,000 · Ammonium acetate 30,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The anhydrous form occurs naturally as a rare mineral millosevichite, found for example in volcanic environments and on burning coal-mining waste dumps.
- Aluminium sulfate is rarely, if ever, encountered as the anhydrous salt.
- It forms a number of different hydrates, of which the hexadecahydrate Al23·16H2O and octadecahydrate Al23·18H2O are the most common.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Aluminium sulfate article was read about 46,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 61 and blocks with 42: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Aluminium sulfate (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Picture taken by Martin Walker in June 2005., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
