co is a reducing agent
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Both thermodynamic and kinetic factors make carbon monoxide (CO) a better reducing agent than carbon.
When coke or coal is used to reduce a metal oxide, it gets oxidized to CO.
And, when CO itself is the reducing agent, it is oxidized to CO2
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