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How is a metal made?
Metals are extracted from their ore through chemical reaction. Iron ore is an oxide of iron. The oxygen is removed from the ore by heating carbon with the ore to create molten iron and Carbon Dioxide.
Is raw iron found in England?
There is iron ore in England.
How is iron mined?
Iron ore is mined in many places around the world. South America, Australia, and Asia have some of the largest iron ore mines.
What are the 3 resources needed to produce iron and steel?
Iron ore, coal, phosphor
The production of cast iron from its ore is an example of?
electorloysis
What is the word equation for the extraction of iron from the ore iron oxide?
oxidition
What types of ore that contains iron?
An ore is a rock that contains minerals that are useful. For an ore to be considered an ore reserve, it must be economically viable (the value of the extracted mineral must exceed the cost of extraction and processing) and must be technically and legally possible to extract.
What is the definition for ore?
Ore is a mineral that can be refined into some useful substance, which is usually a metal. Iron ore is the rock from which iron is refined.
What is a common way that people make useful things out of iron ore?
processing iron ore into metal for construction
Why is iron ore mined?
it's a useful resource
A rock that contains a metal or economically useful mineral is called a?
This is a raw material (feedstock).
How is iron ore useful?
Iron ore was traditionally used to make metal poles. These metal poles would be used as support beams in buildings for example.
How can use the ore in useful way after extraction of platinum?
fill in the giant hole you dug with it and bind with the left over slag?
What Minerals can be classified according to their use what classification is given to a mineral that contains a useful amount of a particular element such as iron?
A mineral that contains a useful amount of a particular element is an ore. An ore containing iron is called iron ore, such as magnetite (Fe3O4), and hematite (Fe2O3), which contain 70% iron.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_ore
What useful material may be obtained from bauxite what useful material may be obtained from hematite what are bauxite and hematite called since they produce useful material?
Bauxite is aluminum ore, hematite is iron ore.
Is soil an ore?
No it is not. Soil is simply a deposit of organic material, an ore is something which contains enough of a metal to make its extraction worth while e.g FeO (Iron oxide)
Why is limestone added to the blast furnace during the extraction of iron?
Iron ore contains the impurities sand and clay, which are silicon oxides. Limestone is added to remove these impurities.
