Give reason why carbonate and sulphide ores are usually converted into oxides during the process of extraction?
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Carbonate and sulphide ores are usually converted into oxides during the process of extraction because it is easy to extract a metal from its oxide by reduction rather then to obtain the metal from carbonate or sulphide.
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