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Ba electrons are further from nucleus than Mg electrons so they are more readily lost.
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What is the reducing agent in burning magnesium ribbon in carbon dioxide equation?
Carbon dioxide is the reducing agent.
What is the reducing agent in a reaction of magnesium with oxygen?
This is oxygen.
How do you identify the reducing agent in a reaction of magnesium with oxygen?
The oxidizing agent (reducing substance) is what does gain electrons, and it means more electronegative substance, and in this case, oxygen.
Is magnesium a good or bad reducing agent?
Quite good, just a bit better than Zinc, hardly better than Aluminum, and less than Sodium (Na), Ca, Ba, K and Li
Which is the powerful reducing agent?
The elements in group 1 are the strongest reducing agents. This is because they have one electron in their outer shell, which the wish to lose to gain a full outer shell. The strength of the reducing agents decreases going across a period and increases down a group.
When a reducing agent donates an electron to another molecule the reducing agent is?
This reducing agent.
Is feso4 reducing agent?
it is a reducing agent
Does magnesium burn in the absence of oxygen?
Magnesium can burn in the absence of elemental oxygen, yes. This is because it is such a strong reducing agent that it can essentially steal oxygen from substances such as water and carbon dioxide.
Why does attaching blocks of magnesium to steel pipelines prevent them from rusting?
Magnesium is a stronger reducing agent than iron. The magnesium has a stronger tendency to take up the oxygen to form magnesium oxide than iron. Iron misses out on the oxygen until the magnesium is all used up.
Is nitrogen an oxidizing agent or a reducing agent?
Reducing
Out of carbon and zinc which is a stronger reducing agent?
IN Ellingham diagram formation of zinc oxide curve appears below the curve of carbon monoxide so zinc is a better reducing agent
Is nitrous acid an oxidizing agent or reducing agent?
it is both oxidizing as well as reducing agent
