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Offline rickyponting66

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Which substance cannot reduce iron (III) oxide to iron?
« on: April 25, 2011, 04:53:23 PM »
Which substance cannot reduce iron (III) oxide to iron?
a) Carbon dioxide
b) Carbon monoxide
c) Coke (carbon)
d) Hydrogen

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Re: Which substance cannot reduce iron (III) oxide to iron?
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2011, 05:25:56 PM »
Kind of odd you would post a multiple choice question, but hey.

Carbon, Carbon monoxide and Hydrogen I believe can reduce Iron(III) to Iron. So then the awnser would be CO2. I'm not looking at the tables right now, but if memory serves that should be correct.

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Re: Which substance cannot reduce iron (III) oxide to iron?
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2011, 05:07:15 PM »
a substance which can reduce iron (III) has to be oxidized itself of course. So this question can also be read as: which compound can be oxidised?

you will see that carbon dioxide has carbon in its fully-oxidised 4+ state and cannot oxidise further, therefore it cannot reduce iron (III)

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Re: Which substance cannot reduce iron (III) oxide to iron?
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2011, 06:30:53 PM »
a substance which can reduce iron (III) has to be oxidized itself of course. So this question can also be read as: which compound can be oxidised?

you will see that carbon dioxide has carbon in its fully-oxidised 4+ state and cannot oxidise further, therefore it cannot reduce iron (III)

Should have thought of that actually, good way to rule it out. Still, memory did serve!

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