reducing power?
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reducing power?
How do I calculate reducing power and what is the concept behind it? Does it have anything to do with electronegativity?
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Re: reducing power?
Reducing power refers to how strong of a reducing agent a substance is. The more negative/lower a substance's reduction potential is, the more likely it will be oxidized (lose elections) and therefore be the stronger reducing agent.
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Reducing power of a species is the ability to reduce other another species. The higher the reducing power, the lower the reduction potential, and the less likely the species itself becomes reduced.
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Re: reducing power?
Reducing agents have lower standard potential. The lower the standard potential, the greater the reducing strength.
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Reducing power is the ability of something to give up electrons so that those electrons can go reduce some other molecule.
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Something with a high reducing power will have a large negative potential difference. Something with a high oxidizing power will have a high positive potential difference.
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