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In the extraction of copper from its sulphideore, the metal is formed by the reduction of Cu2O with

Extraction of copper happens by auto-reduction.


Here, Cu2S reduces Cu2O to Cu and itself gets oxidised to SO2. The copper thus obtained is called as blister copper which is due to the evolution of SO2

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