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The reduction of a metal oxide becomes easy it the metal is obtained in the liquid state at the reduction temperature-why?

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The entropy of liquid is higher than that of solid. As a result of this `DeltaG^(@)` becomes more negative in case of liquid which results in easier reduction of metal oxide.
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