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"On heating iron ore with carbon we got iron and carbon dioxide" is this synthesis, decomposition, or replacement

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It should be a single replacement if the iron ore was an iron oxide (FeO), since the iron in the oxide was replaced by carbon, making CO and leaving iron (Fe) alone.
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