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1
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Name an un reactive metal found in the earth

A

Gold.

2
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What do ores contain?

A

Enough metal to make extraction worthwhile.

3
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What is a metal ore?

A

Is a rock which contains enough metal to make it worthwhile extracting the metal from it.

4
Q

The ore is what of the metal?

A

Ore is an OXIDE of the metal.

5
Q

EG what is the main aluminium ore called?

A

Bauxite.

Aluminium oxide.

6
Q

How are most metals extracted from their ores?

A

Using a chemical reaction.

7
Q

What can change over time?

A

Economics.

Profitability.

8
Q

What happens if the market price of a metal drops alot?

A

Might not be worth extracting.

9
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What happens if the markets price of a metal increases a lot?

A

It might be worth extracting more of it.

10
Q

What happens when technology improves?

A

It becomes possible to extract more metal from a sample of rock than what was originally possible.

11
Q

How can a metal be extracted from its ore chemically?

A

By reduction.

Or electrolysis.

12
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Some ores have to do what before the metal is extracted?

A

Concentrated.

13
Q

What does it mean by concentrated?

A

Getting rid of the unwanted rocky material.

14
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How can electrolysis also be used?

A

To purify the extracted metal.

15
Q

How can some metals be extracted?

A

By reduction with carbon.

16
Q

What happens when an ore is reduced?

A

Oxygen is removed.

17
Q

How can you tell if a metal can be extracted by reduction with carbon?

A

From its position in the reactivity series.

18
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What happens to the metals higher than carbon in the reactivity series?

A

They have to be extracted using electrolysis.

Which is expensive.

19
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What happens to the metals below carbon in the reactivity series?

A

They can be extracted by reduction using carbon.

20
Q

Give an example of a metal lower than carbon on the reactivity series, how is it reduced?

A

Iron oxide is reduced in a blast furnace to make iron.

21
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How are metals below carbon extracted by reduction using CARBON?

A

Because carbon can only take the oxygen away from the metals which are less reactive than carbon itself.

22
Q

Name the metals extracted using electrolysis.

A
Potassium.
Sodium.
Calcium.
Magnesium.
Aluminium.
23
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Name the metals extracted by reduction using carbon.

A

Zinc.
Iron.
Tin.
Copper.

24
Q

Extracting metal isn’t what?

A

Cheap.

25
Q

What do you have to pay for when extracting metal?

A

Special equipment.
Energy.
Labour.