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Aluminothermic reaction
Heat-producing chemical reactions with aluminum / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Aluminothermic reactions are exothermic chemical reactions using aluminium as the reducing agent at high temperature. The process is industrially useful for production of alloys of iron.[1] The most prominent example is the thermite reaction between iron oxides and aluminium to produce iron itself:
- Fe2O3 + 2 Al → 2 Fe + Al2O3
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This specific reaction is however not relevant to the most important application of aluminothermic reactions, the production of ferroalloys. For the production of iron, a cheaper reducing agent, coke, is used instead via the carbothermic reaction.