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Write short notes on Pyrometallurgy with example.

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Pyrometallurgy:

The process of conversion of metal oxides to metal by heating vigorously at high temperature with reducing agent is known pyrometallurgy.
For example : Reduction of oxides of iron and copper is carried out in the blast furnace at high temperature.
Fe2O3 + 3C \(\overset{\Delta}{\longrightarrow}\) 2Fe + 2CO
Fe2O3 + 3CO \(\overset{\Delta}{\longrightarrow}\) 2Fe + 3CO2

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