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Extracting Metals in the Middle of Activity Series

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In the extraction of metallic zinc from zinc oxide, the reducing agent used is __.

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When zinc oxide is heated with carbon, it is reduced to metallic zinc. Carbon acts as the reducing agent.

$2 Z n O + C \to 2 Z n + C O_{2}$

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