How is aluminium produced in it's raw mode, like the / dumber way of putting it since I don't understand the complicated stuff
Aluminum is produced from bauxite in two major stages: alumina (aluminum oxide), a white, granular substance which looks somewhat like sugar, is refined from bauxite in a several-step caustic soda/high temperature process. the alumina is electrolytically reduced in molten cryolite to separate it into aluminum and oxygen.
Gotta love it when you ask for a simple answer and you get the guy above is trying to be funny .. Bauxite is mined ( dug out ) the ground and nearly all the worlds Bauxite comes from Australia not all but most of it . Its shipped to huge Smelters - Basically giant melting pots that run on electricity . The electrical charge separates all the junk and melts the aluminum into a liquid and the liquid is poured out into huge bars called Ignots and then it goes to foundries - This times its just giant ovens and then its turned into sheets or bars or cast into shapes . Now a worthless piece of info . The 2 most common elements on the planet are #1 Silica which is simply sand and melted becomes glass .. But # 2 is aluminum and the smelting process which may of gotten better since I worked in the mines (1986) but back then smelting aluminum was one of the biggest causes of air pollution on the planet . Im sure its been cleaned up since then .
aluminum is extracted from bauxite ores. whieis Al2O3.2H2O . its is extracted by method of electrostatic reduction... :-)
