Question

A reducing agent used for reducing zinc oxide?

Answer 1

In a redox reaction, a reducing agent is when one of the reactants reduces the other reactant by giving out electrons to the reactant. In other words, we can say that when a substance loses electrons to another substance and gets oxidized to a higher valency state is called a reducing agent. Zinc oxide (ZnO) is reduced to zinc by using reducing agents. Coke (C) is used as a reducing agent for this process.

The reaction involved is as follows-

${\mathrm{ZnO}}_{\left(\mathrm{s}\right)}+{\mathrm{C}}_{\left(\mathrm{g}\right)}\stackrel{1400°\mathrm{C}}{\to {\mathrm{Zn}}_{\left(\mathrm{s}\right)}}+{\mathrm{CO}}_{\left(\mathrm{g}\right)}$

Zinc coke zinc carbon

oxide monoxide