Give an example of trivalent metal extracted by electrolytic reduction

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An example of trivalent metal extracted by electrolytic reduction is Aluminium.
Electro-metallurgy
Those metals which are comparatively higher in the electrochemical series are extracted by electrolysis.
The extraction of metals by electrolysis is called electro-metallurgy.
Electrolytic reduction is done here to extract metals.
Aluminium is a trivalent metal that is its valency is 3.

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