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Carbon monoxide acts as a good reducing agent. Explain.

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Carbon monoxide is a strong reducing agent. It reduces the oxides of the less active metals to their respective metals and itself gets oxidised to carbon dioxide in the process.
$C u O + C O \to C u + C O_{2}$

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