Engineering
Chemistry
Roasting Calcination or Smelting
Ores and Minerals
Question

Extraction of metal from the ore cassiterite involves

self-reduction of a sulphide ore

removal of iron impurity

carbon reduction of an oxide ore

removal of copper impurity

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Solution

Cassiterite is SnO2.

To reduce SnO2 into Sn, carbon reduction process is used.

Sn has iron impurity.

SnO2 + C  Sn + CO2

*           The most appropriate answer to this question is (A,D), but because of ambiguity in language, IIT has declared (A, D) as correct answer