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A person wants to go into business producing aluminum foil and cans. Which resource will he most likely need to acquire in large quantities?

Bauxite

Coal

Halite

Limestone

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Answer:

Bauxite

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User Eran Meiri
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Bauxite.
Because bauxite it mainly aluminium oxide however with some impurities
therefore its taken to a bauxite plant where the impurities are removed and the result is white aluminium oxide ( alumina).
Aluminium is then extracted from alumina by electrolysis
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