What chemical process is used for obtaining a metal from its oxide?
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reduction is a chemical process used for obtaining metal from its oxide .
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Answer:
What chemical process is used for obtaining a metal from its oxide?
The chemical process that is used in obtaining metals from their oxides, is known as reduction.
Explanation:
Reduction in chemistry is defined as the process of removal of oxygen. The reduction process is the opposite of oxidation (the addition of oxygen).
Reduction can employ many methods like use of carbon to extract the metals from the oxide.
There are metals that exist naturally in their ores as oxides. Such metals include zinc, iron and copper. The metals are extracted from their ores using carbon.
The oxides of these ores are heated with carbon to obtain the metals. In the process, the metal oxides get reduced (loses oxygen) and the carbon is oxidized ( receives oxygen).
Here is an example of extraction of the Iron from iron oxide:
Fe₃O₄ (s) + 2C (s) → 3Fe(s) + 2CO₂ (g)