Metals
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- Created on: 06-04-17 17:14
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- Metals
- Impacts of extracting metals
- Can be bad for environment
- Same reasons as quarrying
- Recycling metals is important
- Mining and extracting metals burns a lot of fossil fuels
- Need to conserve fossil fuels
- Recycling metals uses less fossil fuels
- Fossil fuels aren't cheap - saves money
- Recycling metals uses less fossil fuels
- Only a small amount of metals
- Need to conserve fossil fuels
- Cuts down amount of rubbish in landfill
- Mining and extracting metals burns a lot of fossil fuels
- Can be bad for environment
- Properties of metals
- Strong
- Bridges and car bodies
- Saucepan base
- Titanium
- Bendy
- Bridges and car bodies
- Aluminium
- Good conductor
- Saucepan base
- Electrical wires
- Copper
- Good but corrode, need to be protected
- Strong
- Alloys
- Harder than pure metals
- Different sized atoms
- Can't slide over each other easily
- Different sized atoms
- Bronze = copper + tn
- Cupronickel = copper + nickel
- Gold alloys = gold + zinc / copper / silver / palladium / nickel
- Harder than pure metals
- Impacts of extracting metals
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