Question

‘Wood charcoal – an amorphous aliotrope of carbon reduces heated metallic oxides to metals.’ Give a balanced equation to support the statement.

Answer 1

Wood charcoal reduces ZnO, Fe2O₃ to metal.

\[\ce{ZnO + C ->\underset{\text{Zinc metal}}{Zn} + CO}\]

\[\ce{Fe2O3 + 3C ->\underset{\text{Metal iron}}{2Fe} + 3CO}\]