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Extracting Metals
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GCSE Chemistry Mind Map on Extracting Metals, created by emtheballerina on 15/04/2014.
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metals
ores
limestone
chemistry
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Extracting Metals
Limestone
Quarries
Noisy
Creates Jobs
Pollution
Better Healthcare
Damages Landscape
Improves Transport Links
Lots of Traffic created
Cement
Result of Heating Limestone and Clay
Limestone= Calcium Carbonate
Calcium Carbonate =
DOES NOT DRY OUT
Mortar
Mixing Cement, Sand and Water
DOES NOT DRY OUT
Binds bricks together
Concrete
Very Strong
DOES NOT DRY OUT
Mixing Cement, Sand, Gravel and Water
Used in foundations for buildings/bridges
Ores
Only used when the ore contains enough metal to make extraction worthwhile
Metal Oxides
Can be SMELTED directly
Smelting
The Ore is crushed and concentrated to remove rock containing little/no metal
Changed into metals by REDUCTION
Reduction
Removing the Oxygen from the compound
Heating in a furnace with carbon IF the metal is below carbon in the reactivity series
Limestone is added to remove impurities from the ore which forms slag
Metals ABOVE Carbon in the reactivity series are extracted using ELECTROLYSIS
Electrolysis produces Oxygen Gas
Iron
Blast Furnaces
Iron Ore, Coke and Limestone are fed into the top of the blast furnace
Molten Iron and Slag collect at the bottom
Carbon Monoxide is produced from burning Oxygen and Coke
Coke = pure Carbon
Carbon Monoxide reduces iron oxide to iron, and is oxidised to carbon dioxide
Produces iron
produces carbon dioxide
Carbon Monoxide reduces iron oxide to iron, and is oxidised to carbon dioxide
Limestone reacts with impurities and creates slag which floats on top of the iron
Oxidation
oxygen is added to a substance
Reduction
oxygen is removed from a substance
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