What are Oxidising agents ?
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Oxidising agent 》 A substance that tends to bring about oxidation by being reduced and gaining electrons.
Reducing Agent 》 a substance that tends to bring about reduction by being oxidized and losing electrons.
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What are Oxidising agents ?
In chemistry, an oxidizing agent (oxidant, oxidizer), or oxidising agent (oxidiser) is a substance that has the ability to oxidize other substances — in other words to accept their electrons. Common oxidizing agents are oxygen, hydrogen peroxide and the halogens.
In one sense, an oxidizing agent is a chemical species that undergoes a chemical reaction in which it gains one or more electrons. In that sense, it is one component in an oxidation–reduction (redox) reaction. In the second sense, an oxidizing agent is a chemical species that transfers electronegative atoms, usually oxygen, to a substrate. Combustion, many explosives, and organic redox reactions involve atom-transfer reactions.
Common oxidizing agents
- Oxygen (O2)
- Ozone (O3)
- Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and other inorganic peroxides, Fenton's reagent
- Fluorine (F2), chlorine (Cl2), and other halogens
- Nitric acid (HNO3) and nitrate compounds
- Sulfuric acid (H2SO4)
- Peroxydisulfuric acid (H2S2O8)
- Peroxymonosulfuric acid (H2SO5)
- Hypochlorite, Chlorite, chlorate, perchlorate, and other analogous halogen compounds like household bleach (NaClO)
- Hexavalent chromium compounds such as chromic and dichromic acids and chromium trioxide, pyridinium chlorochromate (PCC), and chromate/dichromate compounds
- Permanganate compounds such as potassium permanganate (KMnO4)
- Sodium perborate
- Nitrous oxide (N2O), Nitrogen dioxide/Dinitrogen tetroxide (NO2 / N2O4)
- Potassium nitrate (KNO3), the oxidizer in black powder
- Sodium bismuthate (NaBiO3)
- Cerium (IV) compounds such as ceric ammonium nitrate and ceric sulfate
- Lead dioxide (PbO2)
- Sodium dichromate (Na2Cr2O7)