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Question
‘Wood charcoal – an amorphous aliotrope of carbon reduces heated metallic oxides to metals.’ Give a balanced equation to support the statement.
Solution
Wood charcoal reduces ZnO, Fe2O3 to metal.
\[\ce{ZnO + C ->\underset{\text{Zinc metal}}{Zn} + CO}\]
\[\ce{Fe2O3 + 3C ->\underset{\text{Metal iron}}{2Fe} + 3CO}\]
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