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

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The standard free energy of formation ` (Delta _ fG^(@)) ` of ` CO_ 2 ` from CO is higher than that of the formation of ZnO from Zn. Therefore, CO cannot be used to reduce ZnO to Zn.
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