11. Its high affinity for oxygen makes it a powerful reducing agent . 12. Examples of reducing agents include the earth metals, formic acid, and sulfite compounds. 13. Typical reducing agents undergo permanent chemical alteration through covalent or ionic reaction chemistry. 14. :" Antioxidant " is just a fancy name for reducing agent . 15. Such compounds find wide use as reducing agents in organic synthesis. 16. The reaction proceeds in alkaline conditions under the influence of a reducing agent . 17. When subjected to a reducing agent , usually hydroquinone, it forms black elementary silver. 18. PI 3 is also a powerful reducing agent and deoxygenating agent. 19. Reducing agents can be ranked by increasing strength by ranking their oxidation potentials.20. At a low temperature the drag reducing agent will tend to cluster together.
