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Calcium phosphate is reduced to phosphorus by coke. (The actual reducing agent is carbon monoxide.)

Silica is added which reacts with the calcium oxide to form calcium silicate slag which removes impurities.

W. Büchner, R. Schliebs, G. Winter, K.H. Büchel, Industrial Inorganic Chemistry, VCH, 1989

2
Ca3(PO4)2
  +  
10
Coke
         
P
  +  
6
CaO
  +  
10
CO
Reactant Page Go To Go To
Calcium phosphate, tribasic     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
Coke     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
Phosphorus, white     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
Calcium oxide     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
Carbon monoxide     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming

Interaction, Reaction, Process defined as:
Extraction
Industrial Process: Inorganic
Redox
Reduction: Of Substrate By Reagent

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