reducing agent
- noun
- /rɪˈdjuːsɪŋ ˈeɪdʒənt/
- Specialized
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agente reductor
- The electroless deposition of copper was achieved by immersing the activated samples in an alkaline Cu tartrate bath containing formaldehyde as the reducing agent.
So you don't want your thiol reactive probe to react with the reducing agent in the buffer here, OK.
- So you don't want your thiol reactive probe to react with the reducing agent in the buffer here, OK.
- Now DTT is a commonly used reducing agent which can reduce disulfide bridges in proteins.
Examples
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During the experiment, we used a common reducing agent to facilitate the reaction between the compounds.
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The substance to be used as a reducing agent prior to bonding procedures must have a low molecular weight to be spread over and permeate through the dental substrate.
Academic text (2018) -
In the present case, hypophosphite was selected as the reducing agent.
Academic text (1998) -
Despite some reducing agents' effectiveness, none of them can be clinically used, probably due to their short shelf lives.
Academic text (2018) -
The reducing agent converts the metal ions to zero-valent metal on the surface to form a continuous metal film.
Academic text (1998) -
Electroless deposition is a wet chemical metallization process that entails the reduction of a salt from solution onto a surface using a reducing agent as the source for electrons.
Academic text (2001) -
In the present case, hypophosphite was selected as the reducing agent in the chemical reaction.
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The formaldehyde acted as a reducing agent to convert metal ions into a solid form.
Synonyms
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A chemical that gives electrons to another substance to change it
A chemical that gives electrons to another substance during a reaction
Antonyms
- Specialized
A substance that makes another substance lose electrons during a chemical reaction
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally predictable as 'an agent that reduces'—the modifier 'reducing' describes the role of the agent—so a learner who knows both words can form a rough plausible meaning. However, the precise chemical sense (electron transfer / being oxidized) is technical and not inferable from general vocabulary knowledge alone, so a B1 learner would grasp only a vague idea rather than the full, domain-specific meaning.
Etymology
Reducing agent comes from the verb reduce, meaning 'to make less', and agent, meaning 'something that does an action'. In chemistry a reducing agent gives electrons or removes oxygen so another substance becomes 'less' in its chemical state, so today the phrase means 'a substance that causes reduction in another substance'.