Metals and their uses Flashcards
Ores need to be consent rated before extracted, what does this lead to?
Large amounts of waste
What’s the name of a rock that contains enough metal for it to being extracted
Ore
How can metals e extracted from compounds?
By displacement using more a reactive element
What’s a reduction reaction?
A reaction that takes place as carbon removes the oxygen from the oxide to produce the metal
Metals which are less reactive then carbon can be extracted from the oxides by heating what?
Carbon
What do we call the removal of oxygen from metal oxide?
Reduction
Metals are usually found in the earths crust and are often chemically combined with what?
Other elements such as oxygen
An ore contains enough metal to make it worth what?
Extracting metal
What’s an ore?
A rock that contains enough of a metal or a metal compound for it to be worth extracting
How is iron oxide reduced?
It’s put in a blast furnace at high temperatures using carbon
What is the texture of iron from the blast furnace
Too brittle for many uses as cat iron
What is most steel converted into?
Alloys called steel
What do steels contain?
Carefully controlled quantities of carbon and other elements
Many of the ores are used to produce what?
Iron that contain iron oxide
The iron produced in a black furnace is how many percent iron?
96%
What can alloys do?
Can be made so that they have properties for specific uses
What’s a steel?
An alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon or other metals such as nickel and chromium added
What’s a alloy?
A mixture of metals (sometimes none metals)
What’s the difference between low carbon steels and high carbon steels?
Low carbon steels are easily shaped and high carbon steels are hard
Which steels resist corrosion?
Stainless steels that have larger quantities of other metals