Zinc oxide reacts with carbon, on heating, to form zinc metal and carbon monoxide. Write a balanced chemical equation for this reaction. Name (i) oxidizing agent, and (ii) reducing agent, in this reaction.

ZnO + C → Zn + CO

• Oxidizing agents is a reactant which gain electrons and reduced during a redox reaction and here Zinc oxide is the oxidizing agent
• Reducing agent or reductant is that which substance causes another substance to reduce or it loses electron and oxidized in a chemical reaction. Here carbon is reducing agent.