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Q.15. State why aluminium is extracted from its oxide by electrolysis while copper, lead, iron by reducing agents and mercury and silver by thermal decomposition.

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Al is more reactive than the given elements .
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As AL has a very high affinity for oxygen and it can't be reduced easily by common reducing agent like coke zinc etc
So the process of Electrolysis is chosen for extraction of AL
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