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What is an Ore?
a rock which contains enough metal to make it economically worthwhile to extract the metal
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What does Oxidised mean?
Describes a substance that has had oxygen added to it or has lost electrons
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Give an equation for oxidation:
iron+oxygen=iron oxide
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What do you have to do to extract metals from their oxides
the metal oxide must be reduced (have oxygen removed)
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What is reduction?
a reaction in which oxygen is removed or electrons are gained
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What is the Reactivity Series
A list of metals in order of their reactivity with the most reactive metals at the top and the least reactive ones at the bottom
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Order of reactivity:
1 Potassium 2 Sodium 3 Lithium 4 Calcium
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How can you tell if Hydrogen gas is given off if metals rect with water and a dilute acid?
The gas 'pops' with a lighted spill
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What is a Displacement reaction?
when a more reactive element displaces a less receptive element from a aqueous solution
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