Metal extraction
What Metal extraction means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Metal oxides are reduced to extract the pure metal, using carbon to remove the oxygen.
Processing metal compounds, such as those in leachate, to obtain the pure metal.
Topics that use Metal extraction
- Alternative methods of extracting metals (HT only) (AQA GCSE)
- Extraction of metals and reduction (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Bioleaching
- Displacement
- Electrolysis
- Environmental and economic evaluation
- Evaluating
- Leachate
- Native metals
- Oxidation
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