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NEET UG 2023 · Chemistry · Question 95

NEET 2023 Chemistry, question 95

Question 95 of the NEET 2023 paper (code G6) is a Chemistry question from General Principles and Processes of Isolation of Elements. Its idea, Extraction of Iron in the Blast Furnace, was asked twice, in 2021 and 2023, across NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 2.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q95 · Chemistry

The reaction that does NOT take place in a blast furnace between 900 K to 1500 K temperature range during extraction of iron is :

  1. 1CaO+SiO2→CaSiO3\mathrm{CaO+SiO_2\to CaSiO_3}
  2. 2Fe2O3+CO→2FeO+CO2\mathrm{Fe_2O_3+CO\to 2FeO+CO_2}Official answer
  3. 3FeO+CO→Fe+CO2\mathrm{FeO+CO\to Fe+CO_2}
  4. 4C+CO2→2CO\mathrm{C+CO_2\to 2CO}

Official answer: option 2 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

Extraction of Iron in the Blast Furnace, in other papers

NEET asked this idea twice, in 2021 and 2023. The other question below.

  • 2021 Q76The maximum temperature that can be achieved in blast furnace is :One-line MCQ · Medium

Extraction of Iron in the Blast Furnace: every question and how it was framed

The chapter

General Principles and Processes of Isolation of Elements in ten years of NEET

8 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 7 of 10 papers, about 0.8 a paper. General Principles of Metallurgy alone had 8.

Chapter analysis

General Principles and Processes of Isolation of Elements: questions per paper

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