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| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |The [[Carbon]] [[Chemical Reaction|reacts]] with the [[mineral]] in a [[Displacement Reaction|displacement reaction]] creating usually producing [[Carbon Dioxide]] and the [[pure]] [[metal]] which is removed from the furnace. Any [[Impurity|impurities]] in the [[mineral]] rise to the top and make a layer called [[slag]] which is removed.
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Copper Carbonate Hydroxide + Carbon → Carbon Dioxide + Water + Copper
: <chem>Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 + C -> 2CO2 + H2O + 2Cu</chem>
===References===
====AQA====
:[https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0198359381/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0198359381&linkCode=as2&tag=nrjc-21&linkId=47c8d1ae58d8b3a5e2094cd447154558 ''Smelting, pages 212, 217, GCSE Chemistry; Third Edition, Oxford University Press, AQA '']