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21-Mat-A3 Structure and Characterization of Materials

Worked solutions to 8 past sittings (2013–2019), 57 questions. Pick a sitting, or start from a topic below.

Topics across the sittings

Topics that come up in more than one sitting, taken from the headings of our worked solutions. A topic counts once per sitting.

Questions by sitting

December 2019

  1. Question 1: Mineral Processing
  2. Question 2: Mass Balance
  3. Question 3: Pyrometallurgical Processes
  4. Question 4: Refining
  5. Question 5: Magnesium Production
  6. Question 6: Heat Balance
  7. Question 7: Electrometallurgy

Dec-10-Met-A3 2018

  1. Question 1: Mineral Processing
  2. Question 2: Mass Balance
  3. Question 3: Pyrometallurgical Processes
  4. Question 4: Copper Production
  5. Question 5: Aluminum Production
  6. Question 6: Heat Balance
  7. Question 7: Electrometallurgy

Dec-12-Mtl-A3 2018

  1. Question 1
  2. Question 2
  3. Question 3
  4. Question 4
  5. Question 5
  6. Question 6
  7. Question 7
  8. Question 8

May 2018

  1. Question 1: Mineral Processing
  2. Question 2: Mass Balance
  3. Question 3: Pyrometallurgical Processes
  4. Question 4: Zinc Production
  5. Question 5: Iron and Steelmaking
  6. Question 6: Heat Balance
  7. Question 7: Electrometallurgy

December 2016

  1. Question 1: Mineral Processing
  2. Question 2: Mass Balance
  3. Question 3: Iron and Steelmaking
  4. Question 4: Light Metals Production
  5. Question 5: Hydrometallurgy
  6. Question 6: Heat Balance
  7. Question 7: Electrometallurgy

May 2015

  1. Question 1: Mineral Processing
  2. Question 2: Mass Balance
  3. Question 3: Pyrometallurgical Processes
  4. Question 4: Iron and Steelmaking
  5. Question 5: Magnesium Production
  6. Question 6: Zinc Production
  7. Question 7: Heat Balance

December 2014

  1. Question 1: Mineral Processing
  2. Question 2: Mass Balance
  3. Question 3: Pyrometallurgical Processes
  4. Question 4: Pyrometallurgical Processes / Refining
  5. Question 5: Hydrometallurgy / Solvent Extraction
  6. Question 6: Aluminum Production
  7. Question 7: Heat Balance

December 2013

  1. Question 1: Mass Balance
  2. Question 2: Heat Balance
  3. Question 3: Flotation
  4. Question 4: Pyrometallurgical Processes
  5. Question 5: Iron and Steelmaking
  6. Question 6: Magnesium Production
  7. Question 7: Aluminum Production