Q. The smelting of iron in the blast furnace involves all the following process EXCEPT _____

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Solution:

During the smelting of iron in blast furnace all the processes viz., oxidation (coke burns to give carbon monoxide), reduction (oxide ore is reduced to metal) and decomposition (limestone which acts as a flux, first gets decomposed to and ). However, it does not involve process of sublimation