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In pyrometallurgy, an ore is heated with a reductant to obtain the metal. Theoretically, it should be possible to obtain virtually any metal from its ore by using coke, an inexpensive form of crude carbon, as the reductant. An example of such a reaction is as follows: () C a O ( s) + C ( s) → Δ C a ( l) + C O ( g) Unfortunately, many ...