Question

An element Y forms a chloride YCl.In terms of gain and loss of electrons,find out which atom oxidized and which atom is reduced

Answer 1

Answer:

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Explanation:

If the y element is sodium and the product is sodium chloride, then sodium gives excess electrons and chlorine accepts to attain inert gas configuration. So as sodium loses electrons it is oxidized and chlorine. reduced .This is potentially very confusing if you try to learn both what oxidation and reduction mean in terms of electron transfer, and also learn definitions of oxidising and reducing agents in the same terms.

Personally, I would recommend that you work it out if you need it. The argument (going on inside your head) would go like this if you wanted to know, for example, what an oxidising agent did in terms of electrons:

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An oxidising agent oxidises something else.*

Oxidation is loss of electrons (OIL RIG).*

That means that an oxidising agent takes electrons from that other substance.*

So an oxidising agent must gain electrons.

Or you could think it out like this:

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An oxidising agent oxidises something else.*

That means that the oxidising agent must be being reduced.*

Reduction is gain of electrons (OIL RIG).*

So an oxidising agent must gain electrons.