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The following is an extract from 'Metals in the Service of Man, Alexander and Street/Pelican 1976. 'Alumina (aluminium oxide) has a very high melting point of over `2000^@ `C so that it cannot readily be liquefied. However, conversion of alumina to aluminium and oxygen, by electrolysis, can occur when it is dissolved in some other substance :
Give the equation for the reaction which occurs at the anode when aluminium is purified by electrolysis.

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