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FeO processes

Q. How difficult is it to separate FeO into Fe and O2? What are the processes for performing this function?

Joe Brewer
student - Salem, Indiana, USA
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A. Hi Joe. Iron making & steel making depend on heating iron ore & coal together so the carbon will steal the oxygen by forming CO or CO2, yielding elemental iron -- but this is probably not a productive and straightforward way to get to O2.

It strikes me, though, that if there were a practical process to make steel while generating O2 instead of CO2, higher atmospheric CO2 levels and global warming would be a smaller issue. Your e-mail address shows you to be at a prestigious university, so asking on the internet for someone to give you the answer probably isn't the best path towards actual learning; suggesting a hypothesis for consideration here would probably be a better idea. Good luck :-)

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