RE: Is aluminium found as a pure metal?
toyota1515 > 05-23-2022, 09:43 AM
Actually Nope, because aluminum was quite reactive ( reactivity series) and exist as metal oxide, conversly, it is found on the earth’s crust as aluminium oxide, Al2O3. in fact, aluminium ore namely bauxite in order to get pure aluminum, Al. You have to extract bauxite by electrolysis (decomposition of aluminium oxide into aluminium and oxide) through Hall-Heroult process in industrial terms.