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What is reducing agent

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What is reducing agent
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Yogita Ingle 5 years, 11 months ago

The substance that undergo oxidation itself and reduce other is called reducing agent whereas the substance that undergo reduction itself and oxidize other is called oxidizing agent.

For example:-      CuO       + H2 -->      Cu + H2O

                   Copper Oxide  Hydrogen  Copper Water

In reaction, Cu is undergoing reduction and oxidizing hydrogen. Therefore, Cu is oxidizing agent and H is reducing agent.

Gayathri Gopal 5 years, 11 months ago

The substance which loses electrons to the other substance and gets oxidized to the higher valency state is known as reducing agent.
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