CAIE A-Level Chemistry 6.1.4 Oxidising and Reducing Agents
Practise identifying an oxidising or reducing agent from the electrons it accepts or donates and its oxidation-state change.
- Syllabus
- 2028–2030
- Course
- Chemistry 9701
- Level
- AS
Exam points
- identify the oxidising agent as the species that accepts electrons and is itself reduced
- identify the reducing agent as the species that donates electrons and is itself oxidised
- justify the agent by naming the atom whose oxidation number decreases or increases in the reaction
6.1.4—And use the terms oxidising agent and reducing question 1
[Maximum number: 1]
The Group 17 elements are oxidising agents.
Explain how the Group 17 elements act as oxidising agents.
(halogens can) remove electron(s) (from a reactant)
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