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Electrolysis is the … Method of extraction but is … Since it uses a vast amount of electricity

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Most powerful

Very expensive

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How are the extraction of aluminium and iron related to their positions in the reactivity series

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  • both do not react to cold water
  • both react to steam without burning
  • after reaction with steam form a metal oxide and hydrogen
  • iron reacts with less vigour to aluminium with dilute acids to form the metal salt and hydrogen
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Electrolysis of metals of the …

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Molten chloride or molten oxide

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When are ionic compounds able to conduct electricity

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When molten/in an aqueous solution

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When an electric current passes through a molten/an aqueous solution of an ionic compound what is taken place

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Electrolysis

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What is electrolysis

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The decomposition (chemical breakdown) of a substance by passing an electric current through it

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What is an electrolyte

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the substance that is being electrolysed

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What is an electrode

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The electrical connection between the electrolyte and the external electrical circuit

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What is a positive electrode called

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Anode

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What is a negative electrode called

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Cathode

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The metal in electrolysis is formed at the

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Negative electrode (aluminium)

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The non metal in electrolysis is formed at the

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Positive electrode (oxygen)

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Symbol for aluminium oxide

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Al2O3

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Reaction at the negative electrode (cathode)

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  • positive metal ions (cation) attracted to negative electrode
  • when get to electrode they gain electrons so they convert into their atoms
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Reaction at the positive electrode (anode)

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  • negative non metal ions (anion) attracted to positive electrode
  • when get back to the electrode lose electrons to form atoms
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For aluminium reaction at cathode

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Al3 + 3e- –> Al

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For aluminium reaction at anode

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2O2- –> O2 + 4e-

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For aluminium electrolysis what is the anode made from

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Graphite (carbon)

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In aluminium electrolysis what is the cathode made out of

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Graphite (carbon)

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What is the electrolyte in aluminium extraction

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A solution of aluminium oxide dissolved in molten cryolite

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What is the main ore of aluminium

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Bauxite

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Before electrolysis bauxite is first what to produce what

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Purified to produce aluminium oxide

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Al2O3 has a very high melting point which is why it is dissolved in … To make the electrolyte

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Molten cryolite

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When the aluminium melts and collects at the bottom of the cell it is then…

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Tapped/syphoned off at the taping hole

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In electrolysis some oxygen produced at the anode reacts with the graphite to produce

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CO2, meaning the anode needs to be regularly replaced as it burns

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Aluminium useful properties

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Conductor of heat and electricity
Low density
Resists corrosion as a tough layer of aluminium oxide on surface protects it

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Where is bauxite usually found

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Jamaica

27
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Useful properties of iron

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Abundant
Cheap
Strong
Used mainly to make steel

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4 raw materials needed for blast furnace

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Haematite
Limestone
Coke
Hot air

29
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What is coke used for in a blast furnace

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Made from coal, heated but not burned, rich in the element carbon

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What is haematite used for in the blast furnace

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The iron ore, mainly iron(iii) oxide (Fe2O3)

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What is limestone in a blast furnace

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Consists mainly of the compound calcium carbonate (CaCO3), reacts with the impurities in the haematite

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Hot air is blasted where

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In the bottom of the blast furnace (convection)

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Iron ore, coke and limestone are mixed together and

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Feed into the top of the blast furnace

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In a blast furnace the temperature needs to remain high so the carbon is burned therefore

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To help the carbon burn quicker hot air is blasted at the bottom to help keep oxygen present

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When carbon burns in the blast furnace it produces two gases

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Carbon dioxide
C + O2 –> CO2
Carbon monoxide
CO2 + C –> 2CO

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The gases produced when carbon is burned move up through the blast furnace, the carbon monoxide

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reacts with iron ore that is mixed up in the furnace

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Iron ore equation

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Fe2O3

38
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Balanced equation for carbon monoxide and iron ore

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Fe2O3 + 3CO –> 2Fe + 3CO2

39
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The molten iron that is formed in a blast furnace trickles … Inside the furnace and … at the bottom

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Down

Collects

40
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The CO2 formed in a blast furnace moves … Inside the furnace and escapes at the ..,

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Up

Top

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Limestone in a blast furnace is used to

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Remove natural impurities in the haematite

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Product of the reaction between haematite and limestone is

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Slag

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Slag in a blast furnace trickles down to the bottom as it is dense but

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Forms a layer that floats on top of molten iron as it is less dense than that

44
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Slag is useful for

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Using it as rubble to build roads

45
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Aluminium used as aeroplane bodies

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high strength to weight ratio

46
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Aluminium used as overhead power cables

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Good conductor of electricity

47
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Aluminium used for saucepans

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Good conductor of heat

48
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Aluminium used as food cans

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Non toxic

49
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Aluminium used as window frames

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Resists corrosion

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Iron used as car bodies, iron nails, ships, bridges

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Used to make steel, strong (withstands collisions)

52
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Reactivity series in decreasing order remember …( Pratt Sometimes Likes Cooking Meth And Cant Znort It Till Lucy’s High Cuz She’s Grim Phucked)

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Potassium
Sodium
Lithium
Calcium
Magnesium
Aluminium
Carbon
Zinc
Iron
Tin
Lead
Hydrogen
Copper
Silver
Gold 
Platinum

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