Chemistry, asked by minealice9037, 1 year ago

Why carbon monoxide is not used for the reduction of zinc oxide?

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Answered by Aquib7089

The standard Gibbs free energy of formation of ZnO from Zn is lower than that of CO2 from CO. Therefore, CO cannot reduce ZnO to Zn.Hence, Zn is not extracted from ZnO through reduction using CO.

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