Reducing agent or reductant

The wide range of reducing agents under a variety of conditions can result in dramatic differences in reactivity of the metal. For some metals, essentially the same reactivity is found no matter what reducing agent or reduction conditions are used. In addition to the reducing conditions, the anion of the metal salt can have a profound effect on the resulting reactivity. These effects are discussed separately with each metal. 

It gains electrons. Reducing agents or reductants are substances that reduce other reagents. A reducing agent is, itself, oxidised during a reaction. It loses electrons. 

In the same way that acid-base reactions involve the transfer of protons between proton donors and proton acceptors, redox reactions involve the transfer of electrons between electron donors, called reducing agents or reductants, and electron acceptors, called oxidizing agents or oxidants. Thus when a redox reaction takes place, a reductant loses electrons and is oxidized to its conjugate oxidaut ... 

HOOKE S LAW SPRING KINETIC ISOTOPE EEEECTS REDUCING AGENT (or Reductant) REDUCTION Reducing agents,... 

The species that brings about reduction is called the reducing agent (or reductant ). 

Redox reactions involve oxidation and reduction they occur by the exchange of electrons between reacting chemical species. Electrons (or electron density) are lost (or donated) in oxidation and gained (or accepted) in reduction. An oxidizing agent (or oxidant), which accepts electrons (and is thereby reduced), causes oxidation of a species. Similarly, reduction results from reaction with a reducing agent (or reductant), which donates electrons (and is oxidized). 

Oxidation and reduction steps complement one another, e.g. in reaction 7.1, magnesium is oxidized, while oxygen is reduced. Magnesium acts as the reducing agent or reductant, while O2 acts as the oxidizing agent or oxidant. 

Oxidizing Agent or Oxidant Reducing Agent or Reductant F°(V)... 

When a substance B emits electrons, it leaves behind a new substance D. B is referred to as the reducing agent (or reductant) (abbreviation Rd) and D as the oxidizing agent (or oxidant) (abbreviation Ox). We use the abbreviations Rd and Ox for any type of particle whether it is positive, neutral, or negative, freely mobile in a solution or in a gas, or is only a component in a crystal. The simplest form of electron donation can be expressed as follows ... 

INTRODUCTION AND SECTION 20.1 In this chapter we have focused on electrochemistry, the branch of chemistry that relates electricity and chemical reactions. Electrochemistry involves oxidation-reduction reactions, also called redox reactions. These reactions involve a change in the oxidation state of one or more elements. In every oxidation-reduction reaction one substance is oxidized (its oxidation state, or number, increases) and one substance is reduced (its oxidation state, or number, decreases). The substance that is oxidized is referred to as a reducing agent, or reductant, because it causes the reduction of some other substance. Similarly, the substance that is reduced is referred to as an oxidizing agent, or oxidant, because it causes the oxidation of some other substance. 

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