C1 chapter 3

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What is an ore?
a rock that contains enough metal to make it worth extracting
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How do we find out what method to use to extract a metal?
We look at it's reactivity
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Where are metals found?
In the earth's crust
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A reduction reaction takes place as...
carbon removes the oxygen from the oxide to produce the metal
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How is iron made?
Iron oxide is reduced in a blast furnace
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What are alloys?
mixtures of metals that are made to have specific uses
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If a stainless steel contains larder quantities of other metals, what do they resist?
Corrosion
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Why is Aluminium expensive to extract?
Requies a lot of energy for high temperatures and electricity
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Why is Titanium useful for making aircraft engines?
It is strong, resists corrosion and has a low density.
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How can you extract copper?
By smelting/bioleaching/phytomining
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What is good about the transition metals?
They are good conductors and can be bent into shape even though they are strong.
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