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Activity No. 5 Metals From Rocks Objective Materials Diagram
Activity No. 5 Metals From Rocks Objective Materials Diagram
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Metals from Rocks
I. Objective: To be able to know the different metals from rocks.
II. Materials: Paper, computer, Cellphone, flash drive
III. Diagram: Picture
IV. Procedure
1. Extractive metallurgy is the practice of removing valuable metals from an ore
and refining the extracted raw metals into a purer form. In order to convert a
metal oxide or sulfide to a purer metal, the ore must be reduced physically,
chemically, or electrolytically.
2. If a metal is less reactive than carbon, it can be extracted from its compounds by
heating with carbon. Copper is an example of this. Copper mostly occurs as
sulfide ores, which are heated in air to convert them to copper(II) oxide. Molten
copper can be produced from copper(II) oxide by heating with carbon:
V. Significant Learning
Rock is a solid heterogeneous mixture of one or more minerals. For
example, granite is a mixture of the mineral’s quartz, feldspar, and
biotite. A mineral is a naturally occurring solid that has a crystalline
structure and a definite chemical formula.
For example, gibbsite is a mineral of aluminum with the formula
Al(OH)3. An ore is a rock that contains minerals in concentrations that are
high enough for economical extraction. For example, bauxite is an
aluminum ore. It is a heterogeneous mixture of various aluminum
minerals and other materials such as silica and iron oxides.