# Aluminium and Hydrofluoric acid

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/aluminium-and-hydrofluoric-acid/

[Aluminium](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/aluminum/) (commodity) and [Hydrofluoric acid](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/hydrofluoric_acid/) (chemical): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: demand driver

*Cost and price · Weak · Both ways*

Aluminium smelters use aluminium fluoride, made from hydrofluoric acid, in the electrolytic bath. The aluminium price shows little link with the proxy: monthly moves correlate at minus 0.02 and yearly moves at 0.27.

- **-0.02** monthly change correlation
- **0.27** 12-month change correlation
- **0.48** fitted elasticity

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