What does the oxidizing agent do in a redox reaction?
1 Answer
Jan 12, 2017
It formally accepts electrons, and thus it is REDUCED in a redox equation.
Explanation:
A typical oxidizing agent features a metal in a high oxidation state, for example
And when you write such a redox reaction, the two questions you gots to be asking yourself, are (i) is mass balanced, and (ii) is charge balanced? Well, is it?