Strongly Reducing Metals
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Re: Strongly Reducing Metals
The more negative the standard cell potential for that half reaction, the stronger the reducing agent.
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Re: Strongly Reducing Metals
The opposite goes for oxidizing agents; the more positive the standard cell potential, the stronger the oxidizing agent.
Re: Strongly Reducing Metals
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."
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Re: Strongly Reducing Metals
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.
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Re: Strongly Reducing Metals
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).
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