Why does extraction of a metal always required reduction?
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Decreasing oxidation number is called ad reduction. Generally metals are available in ore form when we reduce the ore than we getting pure metal. the Oxidation number of pure metal is zero where as the Oxidation number of metal in ore is more than 1.
example extraction of iron from its ore hematite Fe2O3
Fe2O3 + 3CO → 2Fe + 3CO2
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Metals and Non-metals. ... The extraction of metal always a reduction process. Because a metal in the combined state has positive valency and a positive ion gets converted into atom or metal on addition of electron(s). Thus, by definition it is a reduction process.
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