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The international pictogram for oxidizing chemicals. Dangerous goods label for oxidizing agents. An oxidizing agent (also known as an oxidant, oxidizer, electron recipient, or electron acceptor) is a substance in a redox chemical reaction that gains or "accepts"/"receives" an electron from a reducing agent (called the reductant, reducer, or electron donor).
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Oxidizing acids, being strong oxidizing agents, can often oxidize certain less reactive metals, in which the active oxidizing agent is not H + ions. For example, copper is a rather unreactive metal, and has no reaction with concentrated hydrochloric acid.
"Redox" is a portmanteau of the words "REDuction" and "OXidation." The term "redox" was first used in 1928. [6]Oxidation is a process in which a substance loses electrons. Reduction is a process in which a substance gains electr
Alcohol oxidation is a collection of oxidation reactions in organic chemistry that convert alcohols to aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, and esters.The reaction mainly applies to primary and secondary alcohols.
The unit cell of rutile, an important oxide of titanium.Ti(IV) centers are grey; oxygen centers are red. Notice that oxygen forms three bonds to titanium and titanium forms six bonds to oxygen.
In biochemistry, an oxidase is an oxidoreductase (any enzyme that catalyzes a redox reaction) that uses dioxygen (O 2) as the electron acceptor.In reactions involving donation of a hydrogen atom, oxygen is reduced to water (H 2 O) or hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2).
Some Bacteria and Archaea can aerobically oxidize elemental sulfur to sulfuric acid. [3] Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans and Thiobacillus thioparus can oxidize sulfur to sulfite by means of an oxygenase enzyme, although it is thought that an oxidase could be used as well as an energy saving mechanism. [58]