Chemistry, asked by Maan6932, 11 months ago

Why can't we use carbon reduction to extract magnesium?

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Answered by idomenus

Carbon can't be used as reducing agent for MgO because Magnesium is high in the reactivity series and metals high in the reactivity series have more affinity for oxygen than carbon.

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