Explain the reducing action of carbon mono oxide.

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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.
Carbon monoxide is used in the extraction of pure metals from their corresponding oxides.
$C u O + C O \to C u + C O_{2}$
$P b O + C O \to P b + C O_{2}$

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