Oxide, oxidizing agent

KEY TERMS oxidation oxidizing agent anode reducing agent... 

Oxidation. Oxidizing agents easily decompose a-amino acids, forming tile corresponding fatty acid with one less carbon number ... 

The chemical species shown on the left are oxidants (oxidizing agents) which can be regarded as possessing vacant electron-free energy levels. A redox reaction will be spontaneous only if the reductant ( electron source in the table) is located above that of the desired electron sink . 

This mechanism is kinetically indistinguishable from others. Often dissolution is controlled by the transport rate of either the acid or the depolarizer, whichever is not present in excess (5). The relative concentrations of the control changes depend on the diffusion coefficients as well as the effective reaction equivalents per mole of oxidant. Oxidizing agents which do not require H+ for reduction, such as Fe+, Ce+% Cr+3 are sometimes called depolarizers, but the role of acid in the dissolution is secondary in these cases. 

Oxidation.—Oxidizing agents which attack benzene with difficulty react readily with toluene, and the substituted methyl radical becomes oxidized to carboxyl. 

Oxidant (oxidizing agent)—A chemical substance which oxidizes materials by removing electrons from them. 

FIGURE 4.4 Relative strength of oxidant (oxidizing agent or electron acceptor) and reductant (reducing agent or electron donor). 

Faraday constant formal potential galvanic cell indicator electrode Nemst equation oxidant oxidation oxidizing agent... 

An oxidizing agent is defined as a substance that brings about the oxidation of substances by accepting electrons from the substance they oxidize. Oxidizing agents undergo a process of reduction. 

An oxidant (oxidizing agent) accepts electrons from another species in an oxidation-reduction (redox) reaction. It is thus itself reduced, while the reactant in question is oxidized. 

Element reduced Element oxidized Oxidizing agent Reducing agent... 

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