Aluminium ore = Bauxite (Al2O3.2H2O) [melting point - 1900 C]Can someone describe aluminium manufacturing briefly? Can't find it's notes. That AlO+Bauxite.
Bauxite is dissolved in cryolite (Na3AlF6) to lower the melting point [900 C]
The ineer surface of electrolytic chamber = graphite cathode
Graphite anodes are hung in the electrolyte.
Al3+ ions are reduced at cathode, and molten Aluminium is produced, which seeps out from a tap/or whatever, just an opening in the base of chamber.
O2- ions oxidised at anode. Oxygen there reacts with anode, though graphite is inert elctrode but this happens coz of high temperature, and CO2 is produced.