Metals Often have to be Separated from their Oxides

Question 1

What do lots of common metals, like iron and aluminium, react with?

Answer 1

Oxygen to form oxides

Question 2

What are these oxides?

Answer 2

Often the ores that the metals need to be extracted from

Question 3

What is a reduction reaction?

Answer 3

A reaction that separates a metal from the oxygen in its oxide

Question 4

What is the reducing agent?

Answer 4

The substance that reduces the metal

Question 5

What does the most common type of reduction reaction use as a reducing agent and why?

Answer 5

Carbon to separate the oxygen from the ,era