Chemistry C1: Rocks and Metals

7 multiple choice questions on Rocks and metals under the AQA chemistry unit 1 curriculum

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What is an ore?
Rocks which contain enough of a metal or a metal compound to make it worth extracting the metal
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What chemical reactions do we use to extract metals?
Displacement using a more reactive element, electrolysis, reduction
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How is Iron extracted?
In a blast furnace using coke to provide the carbon
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What is cast iron?
Produced iron with impurities making it hard and brittle
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Why is pure iron soft and easily bent?
It has a regular arrangement of atoms which are in layers so slide easily over each other
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What are alloys?
Metals which contain a percentage of other metals to give them special properties
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What chemical reactions do we use to extract metals?

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Displacement using a more reactive element, electrolysis, reduction

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How is Iron extracted?

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What is cast iron?

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Why is pure iron soft and easily bent?

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