Strongly Reducing Metals

[Jesus Rodriguez 1J]

How can we determine how strong of reducing agent metals are?

[Esin Gumustekin 2J]

The more negative the standard cell potential for that half reaction, the stronger the reducing agent.

[Christy Zhao 1H]

The opposite goes for oxidizing agents; the more positive the standard cell potential, the stronger the oxidizing agent.

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on page 580, it says "the most negative—the most strongly reducing— are usually found toward the left of the periodic table, and the most positive—the most strongly oxidizing—are found toward the upper right."

[LMendoza 2I]

When a metal is the reducing agent it generally means that this metal is being oxidized so the reduction potential of this metal would have to be more negative since the strongest oxidation elements have the lowest reduction potentials.

[Angel Ni 2K]

The lower the standard reduction potential, the more unlikely the metal will get reduced (since more negative E values result in more positive G values).