Redox Reaction 2

CHEMISTRY  SSS2  Third Term

WEEK 6

Redox Reaction 2

Performance objectives

Students should be able to:

  1. Define oxidizing and reducing agents.
  2. Write IUPAC names of compounds by first calculating the oxidation number of the central first atom.
  3. Write and balance redox reactions. 

Content

Oxidizing and reducing agents

  • Oxidizing agents give oxygen to another substance.
  • Reducing agents remove oxygen from another substance.

For example the extraction of iron from its ore

Fe2O3 + 3CO ----à 2Fe + 3CO2

Fe2O3 ----à 2Fe   oxidizing agent

3CO -------à View More

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