[2] However related compounds are known, such as the basic sodium aluminium carbonate mineral dawsonite (NaAlCO3(OH)2) and hydrated basic aluminium carbonate minerals scarbroite (Al5(CO3)(OH)13•5(H2O)) and hydroscarbroite (Al14(CO3)3(OH)36•nH2O).

Hydrotalcites, both synthetic and natural, are layered metal hydroxides comprised in part of aluminium and carbonate.

[8] Surface carbonate species readily form upon exposure of aluminium oxide to CO2.

[9] Aluminium carbonate, along with aluminium hydroxide and aluminium oxide, is a phosphate-binding drug that is sometimes administered to dogs and cats to bind intestinal phosphate and prevent the absorption of dietary phosphate as well as to decrease absorption of phosphate excreted by the pancreas.

[6] This reaction was the basis of an early fire extinguisher invented by Aleksandr Loran in 1904.