{"id":5466,"date":"2022-07-02T08:31:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T08:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdr.foobrdigital.com\/?p=5466"},"modified":"2022-07-02T08:31:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T08:31:09","slug":"refining-of-metals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/02\/refining-of-metals\/","title":{"rendered":"Refining of Metals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Refining of metals \u2013 removing impurities or gangue from crude metal. It is the last step in metallurgy and is based on the difference between the properties of metal&nbsp;and the gangue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Electrolytic Refining<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Metals like copper, zinc, nickel, silver, tin, gold etc., are refined electrolytically.<br><strong>Anode:<\/strong>&nbsp;impure or crude&nbsp;metal<br><strong>Cathode:&nbsp;<\/strong>a thin strip of pure metal<br><strong>Electrolyte:&nbsp;<\/strong>aqueous solution of metal salt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>From anode&nbsp;<\/strong>(oxidation): metal ions are released into the solution<br><strong>At cathode<\/strong>&nbsp;(reduction): the equivalent amount of metal from solution is deposited<br>Impurities deposit at the bottom of the anode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.byjus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/electrolytic-refining-of-copper.png\" alt=\"electrolytic refining of copper\" class=\"wp-image-1805342\" title=\"electrolytic refining of copper\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refining of metals \u2013 removing impurities or gangue from crude metal. It is the last step in metallurgy and is based on the difference between the properties of metal&nbsp;and the gangue. Electrolytic Refining Metals like copper, zinc, nickel, silver, tin, gold etc., are refined electrolytically.Anode:&nbsp;impure or crude&nbsp;metalCathode:&nbsp;a thin strip of pure metalElectrolyte:&nbsp;aqueous solution of metal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[637],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}