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...Bulk commodities consist of nickel and iron mined from asteroids, oxygen, aluminum and titanium from the moon, and other materials for manufacture of structur *[[Ilmenite Reduction]]

name=Aluminum... '''Aluminum''' (British usage '''Aluminium''') is a Poor Metal in group 13.

...reduced through various chemical and electrochemical methods to produce [[aluminum]]. ===Direct Reduction===

===Aluminum/Silicon/Calcium Production from Anorthite=== ...d separate, the silicon remaining solid, the aluminum melting. This molten aluminum is denser than calcium chloride, and should drip out and collect at the bot

*Aluminum reduction *Carbothermal reduction

...t 25% hydrogen by weight, and using methane as fuel results in about a 50% reduction in the amount of hydrogen needed for a given launch mass. ...sed solar power plants in orbit, oxygen from [[Ilmenite Reduction|ilmenite reduction]] will be much cheaper than methane. Even given cheap methane in a helium

...ons intended to produce [[oxygen]] (and possibly other materials) by the [[reduction]] of [[Lunar Regolith | lunar regolith]]. It is a form of [[In Situ Resour ...luorosilane]] produced by this process is reduced to silicon by a [[plasma reduction]] stage; and the fluorine salts are reduced to metals by reaction with meta

...errous metals at minimum. If desirable, this can proceed to reduction of [[Aluminum]] oxides as well in the direct process. These reduced ferrous metals are in ...melt into the composition range of high tensile strength [[S-glass]]. If [[Aluminum]] has been extracted from the [[alumina]] at the LOX Plant, then the mix wi

...Cambridge Process|FFC Cambridge process]] or [[Ilmenite Reduction|ilmenite reduction]] to get plenty of oxygen. Oxygen would be recycled only to save the cost ...majority of the hydrogen burnt as fuel. Lunar exports of oxygen, silicon, aluminum, calcium, iron, magnesium, titanium, sodium, glass, solar cells, bare and i