Core & Ext. Metals: Extraction
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Paper 3 Practice Questions
N01/3/4.
(a)
Zinc is made by reducing zinc oxide. In 1695 Homberg
obtained zinc from calamine, zinc carbonate. At present zinc is
extracted from the ore, zinc blende.
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(ii)
Describe how zinc is extracted from zinc blende.
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