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I cannot find information on a compound called 'aluminumacitracide'. The questioner also mentions a compound made from aluminum & citric acid. I would call such a compound aluminum citrate. I cannot find any mention of aluminum citrate in tthe references available to me. It aluminum citrate exists, I would GUESS that its formula would be Al(+3) [C(OH)(CH2-COO)2(COO)](-3). The structure is, as far as I can 'sketch' it on this computer: [ /(CH2-COO(-))2 ] [HOC ] Al(+3) [ \(COO(-)) ] The Al could be bound to the negatively charged oxygens of the carboxylate groups, kind of like a fly being held in a spiders legs. The student could check this out by building a molecular model. A high school chemistry teacher should have such a model set. However, this is all only a GUESS. The student has implied that they have tried to use computerized chemical data bases. I would suggest that the high school student try again with enlisting their chemistry teacher to help them use chemical structure & compound searches available through university chemistry libraries. Or, perhaps a friendly faculty or librarian in a university chemistry department could help.
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