{"id":6695,"date":"2023-03-27T11:52:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T06:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6695"},"modified":"2025-03-27T16:26:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:56:39","slug":"what-is-barc-b1201","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-barc-b1201\/","title":{"rendered":"What is BARC B1201?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About<\/strong> <strong>BARC B1201:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>first of its kind<\/strong> Certified Reference Material (CRM) in India and <strong>5th in the World.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This new product will act as an import substitution for use by Industries, Research Laboratories and Academic Institutions <strong>as a calibration standard in evaluating analytical methods, the <\/strong>performance of Instruments, and data quality control in routine analysis of bauxite.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is Bauxite?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Bauxite is an important ore that is used <strong>for making aluminium<\/strong>. It is not a specific mineral but a rock consisting mainly of hydrated aluminium oxides.<\/li>\n<li>The deposits of Bauxite are mainly associated with laterites and occur as capping on hills and plateaus, except in coastal areas of Gujarat and Goa.<\/li>\n<li>Bauxite is primarily used to produce alumina through <strong>the Bayer process.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In India <strong>Odisha <\/strong>alone accounts for 53% of the country\u2019s resources of bauxite and it is also found in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is an Ore?<\/h3>\n<p>Ore is a naturally occurring solid substance from which a precious metal or mineral can be successfully extracted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1910779\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>NALCO-BARC Releases India\u2019s 1st Bauxite CRM<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BARC B1201 is the first of its kind Certified Reference Material (CRM) in India and 5th in the World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}