Extracting metals

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What is an ore?
Rock that contains enough of a metal or metal compound to make it worth extracting.
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How is iron oxide reduced?
At high temperatures in a blast furnace.
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What percentage of iron does this produce?
96%
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What properties are caused as a result of the impurities?
It is hard and brittle and has only a few uses as cast iron.
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Why do we not make the iron pure?
It
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How is iron oxide reduced?

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At high temperatures in a blast furnace.

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What percentage of iron does this produce?

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What properties are caused as a result of the impurities?

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Why do we not make the iron pure?

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