CAIE IGCSE Chemistry Reducing Agent Definition
Practise defining a reducing agent as an electron donor that reduces another species and is itself oxidised, then identifying it in a reaction.
- Syllabus
- 2026–2028
- Course
- Chemistry 0620
Exam points
- define a reducing agent as reducing another substance while being oxidised itself
- identify the reducing agent as the species that donates electrons or loses oxygen
6.4.12—Reducing agent as a substance that question 1
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Ethanol is manufactured by two methods:
method 1 fermentation of aqueous glucose
method 2 catalytic addition of steam to an alkene.
Ethanol can be converted to ethanoic acid by reacting it with an acidified oxidising agent.
State, in terms of redox, what type of reagent ethanol is in this reaction.
reducing agent
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