Combined Science GCSE
Processing
What Processing means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Converting extracted material into a usable form, for example crushing and heating limestone, reducing metal ores or fractionally distilling crude oil.
The treatment that natural resources undergo, because they are not useful directly in most cases, to provide energy and materials.
Topics that use Processing
- Life cycle assessment (AQA GCSE)
- Using the Earth's resources and sustainable development (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Comparing products over their lifetimes
- Disposal
- Environmental costs
- Evaluating significance
- Extraction
- finite
- Finite and renewable resources
- Finite resource
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