REDUCINGAGENT

Reducing agent

A reducing agent is the element or compound in an oxidation-reduction reaction that donates an electron to another species. Because the reducing agent is losing electrons, we say it has been oxidized.

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reducing agent

Noun

  1. Any substance that reduces, or donates electrons to, another; in so doing, it becomes oxidized.


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