Anecdotes for Chemistry Teachers: Aluminium

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The story of the discovery of the Hall-Heroult process for purifying aluminium.

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- GCSE
  - WJEC Chemistry
    - Unit 2: CHEMICAL BONDING, APPLICATION OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS and ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
      - 2.3 METALS AND THEIR EXTRACTION
        (i) the properties and uses of iron (steel), aluminium, copper and titanium
  - WJEC Combined science
    - Unit 5: Chemistry 2
      - 5.3 METALS AND THEIR EXTRACTION
        (i) the properties and uses of iron (steel), aluminium, copper and titanium
Northern Ireland
- GCSE
  - CCEA Chemistry
    - Unit 2: Further Chemical Reactions, Rates and Equilibrium, Calculations and Organic Chemistry
      - 2.1 Metals and reactivity series
        2.1.6 examine the relationship between the extraction of a metal from its ore and its position in the reactivity series, for example: aluminium, a reactive metal, is extracted by electrolysis; and iron, a less reactive metal, is extracted by chemical…
      - 2.7 Electrochemistry
        2.7.5 describe the industrial extraction of aluminium from alumina, demonstrate knowledge and understanding that the alumina has been purified from the ore bauxite and demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the need to replace the anodes periodically…
  - CCEA Double award science
    - Unit C2: Further Chemical Reactions, Rates and Equilibrium, Calculations and Organic Chemistry
      - 2.1 Metals and reactivity series
        2.1.6 examine the relationship between the extraction of a metal from its ore and its position in the reactivity series, for example: aluminium, a reactive metal, is extracted by electrolysis; and iron, a less reactive metal, is extracted by chemical…
      - 2.7 Electrochemistry
        2.7.3 describe the industrial extraction of aluminium from alumina, demonstrate knowledge and understanding that the alumina has been purified from the ore bauxite and demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the need to replace the anodes periodically…
Republic of Ireland
- Leaving Certificate
  - Chemistry
    - Option 2B: Additional electrochemistry and the extraction of metals
      - 2B.4 Strongly Electropositive Metals (Na and Al)
        Depth of treatment
        Extraction by electrochemical methods.
        Aluminium from bauxite: bauxite → pure aluminium - electrolysis to aluminium.

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