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    Liquid–liquid extraction, also known as solvent extraction and partitioning, is a method to separate compounds or metal complexes, based on their relative...
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    Margraviate of Brandenburg, and a pioneer of analytical chemistry. He isolated zinc in 1746 by heating calamine and carbon. Though he was not the first to do...
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    units to form symmetrical molecule. An important feature is the presence of zinc atoms (Zn2+) on the axis of symmetry, which are surrounded by three water...
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  • was sold in April 2008. Umicore's copper extraction and refining operations were divested in 2005, with its zinc refining operations following in 2007;...
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    achieved by British chemist Edward Frankland in 1849 from ethyl iodide and zinc, but he had not realized that the ethyl radical dimerized and misidentified...
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    industrial minerals are exploited, the main ones are gold, iron, copper and zinc. Others include: titanium, asbestos, silver, magnesium and nickel, among...
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    doi:10.3406/abpo.1997.3949. Ouladon, J. (1977). Les Gisements de plomb-zinc-argent du Massif Central (in French). Bull. B.R.G.M. pp. 67–90. Savignan, Lionel;...
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  • ones, excluding sodium hydrosulfite, are: Zinc Formosul (Br) or Decroline (TG) is an insoluble basic zinc sulphoxylate-formaldehyde. Formosul (Br) or...
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  • most commonly used leaching process for gold extraction. Cyanidation is also widely used in the extraction of silver, usually after froth flotation. Production...
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    based on natural resource extraction. It is supported by industries related to lumbering, and to the mining of gold, zinc, copper, nickel, and silver...
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    Ore (section Extraction)
    metals or minerals a rock contains must be weighed against the cost of extraction to determine whether it is of sufficiently high grade to be worth mining...
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    Uranium mining is the process of extraction of uranium ore from the ground. Over 50,000 tons of uranium were produced in 2019. Kazakhstan, Canada, and...
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    element in nature, but rather as gallium(III) compounds in trace amounts in zinc ores (such as sphalerite) and in bauxite. Elemental gallium is a liquid at...
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    production rebounded to 388 million tons. Pellets are produced directly at the extraction site by mining companies and are marketed as a distinct product, unlike...
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    sectors take on large operations, they rely heavily on artisanal mining for extraction of resources. These industries along with non-for-profit organizations...
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  • in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (French: Extraction du cuivre en République démocratique du Congo) mainly takes place in the Copper Belt of the...
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    El Boleo (redirect from Compagnie du Boléo)
    El Boleo is a copper-cobalt-zinc-manganese deposit located adjacent to the port city of Santa Rosalía, Baja California Sur in Mexico. It includes a historic...
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    infrastructure, corruption, and centuries of both commercial and colonial extraction and exploitation, followed by more than 60 years of independence, with...
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    diaspore(AlOOH); the different forms of the aluminium component will dictate the extraction conditions. The undissolved waste, bauxite tailings, after the aluminium...
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    rarely, found in mineable amounts. Some zinc–copper–lead ore bodies contain enough germanium to justify extraction from the final ore concentrate. An unusual...
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    de-commissioned and replaced. Basic oxygen furnace Blast furnace zinc smelting process Crucible steel Extraction of iron Water gas, produced by a "steam blast" FINEX...
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    material is often terracotta, but it can also be concrete, glass, or metal (zinc, steel). They can be installed on lathing or boarding, or even on specific...
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    abundant element in Earth's crust, representing 50 ppm compared with 75 ppm for zinc, and 14 ppm for lead. Typical background concentrations of copper do not...
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    17. Immediately after the first row of d-block metals, from scandium to zinc, the 3d electrons in the p-block elements—specifically, gallium (a metal)...
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    concentrated in large quantities under the American Great Plains, available for extraction as a byproduct of natural gas. Following a suggestion by Sir Richard Threlfall...
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    incandescence with cadmium, magnesium and zinc chlorates. Mixtures of Sb2S3 and chlorates may explode. In the extraction of antimony from antimony ores the alkaline...
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    Thasos (category Zinc mines in Greece)
    exploited the island's zinc-lead rich calamine ores, with a yield of around 2 million tonnes, and a processing plant at Limenaria produced zinc oxide. Iron ore...
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    other elements, and by the 2010s, annual production of radium, mainly via extraction from spent nuclear fuel, was less than 100 grams. In nature, radium is...
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    Truffle (section Extraction)
    nitrogen, and sulfur. In contrast, micronutrients include iron, copper, zinc, and chloride. In truffle fungi, as in all ectomycorrhizae, the majority...
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  • These elements include hydrogen, beryllium, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, zinc, gallium, tin, iodine, lead, bismuth, and radon. The term metalloid has also...
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