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6.20 Why is zinc not extracted from zinc oxide through reduction using CO?

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According to the Ellingham diagram, the standard Gibbs free energy of formation of ZnO from Zn is lower than the formation of CO_{2} from CO. So, therefore, CO cannot reduce  ZnO to zinc (Zn).

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