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Carbon cannot be used as reducing agent to obtain Mg from MgO. Why?

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Carbon can't be used as reducing agent for $M g O$ because Magnesium is high in the reactivity series and metals high in the reactivity series have more affinity for oxygen than carbon.
Thus carbon cannot reduce Mg from MgO.

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