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Why aluminium cannot be extracted by reducing alumina with carbon?

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Alumina`(Al_(2)O_(3))` cannot be reduced by using carbon because aluminum has more affinity for oxygen than carbon.Therefore,aluminium cannot be extracted by reducing alumina with carbon.
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