Question

Why moderatively reactive metal oxide need reducing agents like carbon, aluminium etc to get converted in pure metal
Ch 4 ,class 10,metals and non metals related question

Answer 1

Moderately reactive metal oxide need reducing agent to get converted in pure metal because to obtain pure metal from its oxide, it is necessary to remove oxygen, hence the metals which have high affinity of oxygen are used as reducing agents to obtain pure metal....

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