Extracting aluminium
- Created by: Orla Maguire
- Created on: 10-06-14 17:34
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2. Why can Aluminium not be displaced by carbon
- aluminium is too strong
- Aluminium is more reactive than carbon
- aluminium is an expensive metal
- aluminium is less reactive than carbon
3. How do we extract aluminium?
- Using electrolysis
- strongy heat it in a blast furnace
- Displace it using carbon
- Dig up its ore from the crusts of the earth
4. Why does aluminium not corrode easily?
- expensive
- Has a protective layer of aluminium oxide
- it isnt reactive so doesnt react to form rust etc
- it is strong
5. Why does it cost so much to extract aluminium?
- Very rare
- Very expensive- lots of heat and electricty is needed
- Have to pay the people to extract the metal
- It is worth a lot of money
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