Why are Sodium and Aluminum extracted Electrolytically!?
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Metals are found in ores combined with other elements. Electrolysis can be used to extract a more reactive metal from the ore.
Bioleaching is used to extract small quantities of metals from mining waste heaps. Electrolysis can be used to extract the metal from the leachate solution produced during the process.
Sodium and aluminum are reactive metals and carbon or other reducing agents cannot reduce their compounds to free metals. Therefore, They are extracted Electrolytically...
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Extracting aluminium. Aluminium is more reactive than carbon so it must be extracted from its compounds using electrolysis . ... This is mainly because of the large amounts of electrical energy used in the extraction process
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