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During the smelting of roasted copper pyrites in blast furnace, why `Cu_(2)S` formed but not `FeS`? 

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Copper has greater affinity to sulphur than oxygen and iron has greater affinity to oxygen than to sulphur. Hence `Cu_(2)S and FeO` are formed in blast furnace.
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