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Q.

Which of the metals listed below can be used as reducing agents to reduce metal oxides to metal?

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a

Fluorine

b

Aluminum

c

Oxygen

d

Chlorine

answer is B.

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Highly reactive metals can displace metals of lower reactivity from their compounds. So they act as reducing agents for other metals. Consequently, a metal can be obtained from a metallic oxide. Out of the given options, aluminum is the metal which can act as a reducing agent. For example, when manganese dioxide is heated with aluminum, it reduces the metal oxide to manganese metal. Rest of the options are examples of oxidising agents.

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