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What's a reducing agent?

What is alcohol?is that reducing agent or oxidising agent?

  • ia alcohol is neutral,acidic or basic?? And alcohol is oxidising agent or reducing agent??

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    alcoho is a group of organic cmpounds charactrsed by presnce of one or more 'OH' grp. It can b both acidic nd basic... Ethanol(alchol we drink) is slightly basic due to presnce of more concntration of 'OH' grp. Tht y we acidify ethanol b4 drinking... I think, alcohol is an reducing agent bcz... It oxidises itself to ketone and ether Thus its possibly a REDUCING AGENT.

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In chemistry, an alcohol is an organic compound in which the hydroxyl functional group (-OH) is bound to a carbon atom. In particular, this carbon center should be saturated, having single bonds to three other atoms.

krishna

1. Alcohol is a organic compound having functional group - OH 2. In most of the reactions alcohols are reducing agents but can act as oxidizing agent. 3. Alcohols are mild acid, acidic strength is very less, does not give litmus test.

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Alcohol is a mild acid and mostly acts as reducing agent.

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