Employee Benefit Plan, Schedule, Allocation, Asset and Liability (Details) - USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2025	Dec. 31, 2024
Albemarle Corporation Retirement Savings Plan
EBP, Schedule of Allocation, Asset and Liability [Line Items]
Unallocated Assets	$ 360,412	$ 3,997,604

Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Topic 962
-SubTopic 205
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.6A-05(a)(Schedule II))
-Publisher FASB
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/1943274/2147477804/962-205-S99-1

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