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Reduction of metal oxides such as with powdered aluminium is known as

  1. AMond process
  2. Baluminothermy (thermite process)
  3. CBaeyer process
  4. DParkes process

Answer: B

Aluminium has a very stable oxide, so it reduces strongly exothermically: . This is called the thermite (Goldschmidt) process.
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