Subscriber login
Password
Forgot your password?
Library card login
Login with Shibboleth® »
Login with Athens »
Close menu
Oxford Dictionaries Online
The world's most trusted dictionaries
About
Subscriber services
What's new
Contact us
Help
Subscribe now
Already a subscriber or in a subscribing organization?
Login
Dictionary
Other language resources
US English
World English
Dictionary
Better writing
World of words
Puzzles and games
For children and schools
For learners of English
Email
Cite
reducing agent
(re|du¦cing agent)
noun
Chemistry
a substance that tends to bring about reduction by being oxidized and losing electrons.
More words in this category
-ium
aceto-
activation analysis
ammoniated
buffer
1
calcium hydroxide
carbonyl
chromatography
creosote
flash photolysis
monohydric
mothball
oligomerize
paraffin
PCP
permethrin
phthalic anhydride
reactive
silastic
Nearby Words
redraft
redraw
redress
redshank
redshirt
redskin
redstart
reduce
reducible
reducing agent
reductant
reductase
reductio ad absurdum
reduction
reduction gear
reductionism
reductive
reductivism
redundancy