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reducing agents
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Indicators and Reagents
Definitions related to reducing agents:
  • Reactant in a redox reaction which undergoes a net loss of electrons; do not confuse with WEIGHT CONTROL AGENT.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Materials that add an electron to an element or compound, that is, decrease the positiveness of its valence. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 5th ed)
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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