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what is the color of aluminium chloride hexahydrate?

Aluminium chloride hexahydrate-AlCl₃·6H₂O

Colour: white or pale yellow solid

  Aluminium chloride is hygroscopic, having a very high affinity for water. It fumes in moist air and hisses when mixed with liquid water as the Cl^- ions are displaced with H₂O molecules in the lattice to form the hexahydrate AlCl₃·6H₂O.