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In the following chemical reaction ''zinc oxide reacts with carbon to produce zinc metal and carbon monoxide.''
`ZnO+CrarrZn+CO`
(i) Identify the substance getting oxidised and the one getting reduced.
(ii) State the reason for choosing the substances in (i) .
(iii) Name the type of reaction and give another example of similar type of reaction .

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(i) C is getting oxidized to CO, ZnO is getting reduced to Zn .
(ii) As carbon is gatting oxygen and ZnO is losing oxygen .
(iii) It is a redox reaction or oxidation and reduction reaction .
`CuO+H_(2)rarrCu+H_(2)O`
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