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What happens when making metal?

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Anonymous

11y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

You can not actually make metal but you can obtain metal from an ore of that metal. The ore is a chemical compound of that metal and the process of smelting the ore involvesf breaking the compound up using heat and "reducing it" essentially removing oxygen - to leave the pure metal.

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