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Describe the extraction of 2 metals from including how they were extracted from the ground and how they are used in process plants. What they are used for and how they are used.
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Extraction of Metals (1) Describe the extraction of 2 metals from including how they were extracted from the ground and how they are used in process plants. What they are used for and how they are used. (2) How are they extracted? A Metal is chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets. Metals have been used since prehistoric time many primetime iron tools have been execrated. These were probably made from small amounts of native iron found in rocks from meteorites it was not until about 2500BC that iron became more widely used. Metal high in the reactivity series have proved very difficult to isolate. Aluminum the most plentiful reactive metal in the earth curst, was not extracted from its ore until 1827, by Fredrick Wohler, and the extremely reactive metal Rubidium was not isolated until 1861. COPPER How copper is extracted from...
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