NCERT Solution for Class Tenth Science Chapter 3
Metals and Non-metals
CBSE NCERT Book Session-2022-2023
Exercises Questions
Page No-21
Questions No-12 Part: d
Give reasons: Carbonate and sulphide ores are usually converted into oxides during the process of extraction.
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It is easier to reduce a metal oxide into free metal. Since it is easier to obtain metals from their oxides than from their carbonates or sulphides directly, therefore, the carbonate and sulphide ores are first converted to oxides for extracting the metals.
Carbonate and sulphide ores are usually converted into oxides during the process of extraction because metals can be easily extracted from their oxides rather than from their carbonates and sulphides.
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