Chemistry
Explain with reasons:
Carbon can reduce lead oxide but not aluminium oxide.
Metallurgy
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Oxides of highly active metals like sodium, potassium, aluminium have great affinity for oxygen and so cannot be reduced by common reducing agents like carbon, carbon monoxide or hydrogen whereas lead is in the middle of activity series and is moderately active. So carbon can reduce lead oxide easily.
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