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How is iron Removed from its oxide?

When iron is removed from its ore or oxide, the carbon used reacts with oxygen to leave the iron alone, but why doesn‘t it react with the iron? (since the iron is more reactive than oxygen) I asked this question in science class and no one knew the answer, my teacher told them to look it up and I wanna know why.Thank you :)

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It is possible to get iron and carbon to react to form a compound called iron carbide, Fe3C under the right conditions, but in the furnace used to produce iron metal the active agent is primarily carbon monoxide. The carbon monoxide is more chemically active than carbon, and reacts with the iron first in this reaction.Fe2O3 + 3CO 2Fe + 3 CO2 The carbon monoxide is a better reducing agent (electron donor) than carbon. The carbon monoxide is produced by limiting the amount of oxygen that reacts with the hot carbon in the furnace, producing CO instead of CO2
First of all, iron is a metal, which is why it can create only ionic and metallic bonds. On the other hand, oxygen can create both ionic and covalent bonds and carbon atom only creates covalent bonds. Since iron and carbon doesn't have any common bond between them, they can not form any molecule. So, the only two molecules possible are between iron and oxygen or carbon and oxygen. That's why the carbon atom bonds with oxygen instead of iron.
electrolysis. Tell your science class I said hi.
Well when the earth was a babt, it was extremly hot and molten. The inside of the earth rotated extremly fast. Eventuly, as the crust cooled, the core stayed the same. But because the core is made of iron and nickle(magnetic metals) and spining really fast and undergoing heavy pressuse, it creates a magnetic field

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