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What Is the difference between roasting and calcination? Give one example for each. (OR) Roasting and Calcination are the methods to extract crude metals from ores. What is the difference between Roasting and Calcination?

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1. Roasting is a pyrochemical process in which the ore is heated in the presence of air below its melting point.1. Calcination is a pyrochemical process in which the ore is heated in the absence of air.
2. It is an oxidation reaction.2. It is a decomposition reaction.
3. It requires oxygen.3. It doesn’t require oxygen.
4. It is suitable to sulphide ores.4. It is suitable to carbonate ores.
5. Ex : 2ZnS + 3O2 → 2ZnO + 2SO25. Ex : CaCO3  → CaO + CO2


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