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CO is a reducing agent. Justify with an example.

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Both thermodynamic and kinetic factors make carbon monoxide (CO) a better reducing agent. When CO is used to reduce a metal oxide, it gets oxidized to `CO_(2)`. Thermodynamically `CO_(2)` is much more stable than CO For example.
`CO+Fe_(2)O_(3)to2Fe+3CO_(2)`
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