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Explain the reducing action of carbon monoxide.

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Reducing action of carbon- monoxide: 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.
$C u O + C O ⟶ C u + C O_{2}$

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