The reactivity series helps us decide the best ways to extract metal from its ore, the oxides of metals below carbon in the series can be reduced by what to give the metal element?
Carbon
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Pure iron is too soft for it to be very useful, true or false?
True
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Carefully controlled quantities of carbon and other elements are added to what to make alloys of steel?
Iron
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Low carbon steels are...
Easily shaped
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Stainless steels are resist to what?
Corrosion
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Name a metal that along with aluminium is resist to corrosion.
Titanium
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Aluminium requires the what of molten aluminium oxide to extract it as it is too reactive to reduce using carbon?
Electrolysis
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Most copper is extracted by doing what to copper-rich ores?
Smelting
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What process can be used to purify impure metals?
Electrolysis
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Bio leaching is the process where...
Bacteria is used to extract metals such as copper
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Phytomining is the process where...
Plants are used to extract metals such as copper
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What is the name for the elements in the central block of elements in the periodic table?
Transition metals
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What type of metal is useful for building things?
Transition
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Card 2
Front
Pure iron is too soft for it to be very useful, true or false?
Back
True
Card 3
Front
Carefully controlled quantities of carbon and other elements are added to what to make alloys of steel?
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