Solar Flare wrote:
I didn't imply that but it sounds like it doesn't either being composed of
carbon and oxygen. What would it be reduced to?

Reduction and combustion are complimentary processes. If you want iron,
you reduce iron oxides, if you want rust, you oxegenate iron (slowly, it
rusts, fast and you use it to cut your way through things (thermite
(waves to Eschelon))...

Ask a metalurgist, or potter...

....Brock.
(Many Russian Nuclear Vessels are now complete bombs.)