Q.1.
What is an ore?
Q.2.
What is the usual method of extracting a reactive metal from its purified ore?
Q.3.
What is the correct order of these sentences which briefly describe the process used to extract a reactive metal like aluminum?Electrodes are placed into the molten ore.The ore is purified and melted.The molten metal can be tapped off and cast into ingots.The metal ions are deposited as molten aluminum.
Q.4.
Why do the ores of reactive metals need to be molten during the extraction process?
Q.5.
During the electrolysis of a reactive metal ore, which electrode attracts the metal ions?
Q.6.
Why can you not obtain group I and group II metals by heating their oxide with carbon?
Q.7.
Titanium is a stronger and lighter metal than iron. Apart from the fact that iron is more abundant in the Earth's crust, why do we not use it instead?
Q.8.
To extract titanium, the ore (titanium dioxide) is converted to titanium chloride which is then reacted with magnesium at 800 C. The magnesium combines with the chloride, leaving the titanium metal on its own. The reaction of magnesium with the titanium chloride is an example of what sort of reaction?
Q.9.
What does the displacement reaction of magnesium with the titanium chloride tell you about titanium and magnesium?
Q.10.
Which of the following metals could also be used to displace titanium from its chloride?