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What is the role of limestone in the extraction of iron from its oxides?

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Role of limestone is the extraction of iron from its oxidef is to remove the impurity of silica as a slag of calcium silicate.
`{:(CaO+ SiO_(2) to CaSiO_(3)),(" Slag "):}`.
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