| A | B |
| Rock with economic amount of metal | an ore |
| Bauxite | Aluminium ore |
| Unreactive, valuable metal | Gold Au |
| reactive metal ignites in water | Potassium K |
| removing oxygen from compound | reduction |
| metal reacting with oxygen | oxidation |
| mixture of metals | an alloy e.g brass |
| iron and carbon make this | steel |
| iron oxide is reduced in this | blast furnace |
| aluminium is obtained by this | electrolysis |
| metal used for electrical wire | copper Cu |
| ability to be drawn out as wire | ductility |
| ability to be shaped | malleability |