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← HistoryWithin Bronze Age smelteries, which risk increases due to insufficient furnace draft?
A)Incomplete metal oxide reduction✓
B)Excessive slag formation
C)Accelerated crucible degradation
D)Disproportionate antimony contamination
💡 Explanation
Insufficient furnace draft reduces oxygen supply, thus inhibiting complete combustion and metal oxide reduction via chemical equilibrium effects; this increases the concentration of intermediate oxides, thereby leading to incomplete reduction, rather than slag or degradation, because the mechanism is limited reactant.
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