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reducing agent definition

reducing agent

any substance that reduces another substance, or brings about reduction, and is itself oxidized in the process

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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