Raw Materials

Aims

To provide information and resources to support teachers in the following topics:

• the nature of economically important raw materials such as crude oil, air and metal ores
• the principles of the separation of mixtures by distillation
• the properties of the distillation products of crude oil and liquid air
• the classification of oxides of metals and non-metals
• the reactivity of metals and the methods of their extraction
• reduction and oxidation in metal extraction