What's a reducing agent?

Oxidizing agent and reducing agent?

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    Not always. This is because you are looking at the terms oxidising agent and reducing agent too simply and not relative to anything. For something to be an oxidising/reducing agent to something else the reaction has to actually be feasible. For example, Lithium is a renowned reducing agent but it couldn't reduce Potassium. This is based on something called electrode potential values that you can use to establish if a transfer of electrons is possible.

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Not always. This is because you are looking at the terms oxidising agent and reducing agent too simply and not relative to anything. For something to be an oxidising/reducing agent to something else the reaction has to actually be feasible. For example, Lithium is a renowned reducing agent but it couldn't reduce Potassium. This is based on something called electrode potential values that you can use to establish if a transfer of electrons is possible.

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