Which reducing agent is used for reducing $Z n O, F e_{2} O_{3}, A l_{2} O_{3}$ ?

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Carbon Monoxide is used as the reducing agent to extract iron from hematite $(F e_{2} O_{3})$ .
Carbon is used as the reducing agent to extract Zinc from Zinc oxide $(Z n O)$ .
Electricity is used to extract aluminium from $A l_{2} O_{3}$ .

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