carbon and hydrogen are used as reducing agents .why?

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Reduction of metal oxides using carbon and hydrogen is easy and they occur naturally more. Normally carbon and hydrogen are the two non metals which are widely used as a reducing agent because they get oxidised to carbon dioxide and water which can be easily separated.

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