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Definition: Reducing Agent |
Reducing AgentNoun1. A substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the slackened silver. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Chemical Industry | A substance that will remove oxygen from or add hydrogen or electrons to a second substance, itself being oxidized in the process. Reducing agents are often used in the separation of Pu from U. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | As a rule in iron founderies, designates a substance able to promote deoxidation during a metallurgical process. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A material that adds hydrogen to an element or compound b. A material that adds an electron to an element or compound; i.e.,decreases the positiveness of its valence i.e.,decreases the positiveness of its valence. (references) |
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Synonyms: Reducing AgentSynonyms: reducer (n), reductant (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: reductant (chemical industry). |
Crosswords: Reducing Agent |
| English words defined with "reducing agent": calcium hydride ♦ Deoxidizer ♦ gallic acid ♦ hydrazine, hydriodic acid, hydrolith, Hydroxylamine, hypophosphorous acid ♦ reducing, reduction ♦ Sodium amalgam. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "reducing agent": arsenious acid, arsenious oxide, As2O3 ♦ Coal coke, copper segregation process ♦ Dithiothreitol ♦ Eflornithine ♦ ferro-titanium, flame inhibitor, frother ♦ Norsk-Staal process ♦ rat poison, reduction smelting ♦ slurry blasting agents ♦ Walcheren Expedition. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
reducing agent | 15 |
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| Language | Translations for "reducing agent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | reduktues (reducing), çoksidues. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | редуктор (reducer, speed reducer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | reduktionsmiddel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | reductor, reductiemiddel, reducerende stof, reduceermiddel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pelkistysaine, pelkiste (deoxidizing addition). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | réducteur (conduit reducer, gear reducer, pipe reducer, reducer, reducing coupling, reduction gear, reduction piece, speed reducer), agent réducteur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | reduzierendes Mittel (reductant), Reduktor (reductant), Reduktionsmittel (reductant), Desoxydationsmittel (reductant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αναγωγικό μέσο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | riduttore (adapter, bull gear, gear reducer, reducer, reduction gear, speed reducer), riducente (abater, abating), agente riduttore, Agente riducente (reductant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | educingray agentay redutor (bull gear, conduit reducer, gear reducer, pipe reducer, reducer, reducing coupling, reductant, reduction gear, reduction piece, speed reducer), agente de redução (reductant). (various references) восстановитель (regenerator, renovator, restorer). (various references) reductor (bull gear, conduit reducer, gear, gear reducer, machine, pipe reducer, reducer, reducing coupling, reductant, reduction gear, reduction piece, speed reducer, step-down), agente reductor (reductant). (various references) reduktionsmedel. (various references) indirgen madde. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-g-g-i-n-n-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: reeducating, underacting, undereating. | |
-3 letters: anteceding, centigrade, decentring, denaturing, enunciated, generating, grandniece, greatening, reenacting, renegading, renunciate, uncreating, untreading. | |
-4 letters: ancienter, argentine, cantering, careening, centering, curtained, dangering, decanting, decerning, denigrate, deranging, deterging, educating, endearing, endurance, engrained, entrained, entranced, enunciate, gandering, gangrened, gardening, gendering, gratineed, grenadine, indenture, integrand, intergang, nectarine, negritude, neutering, recanting, redacting, runcinate, tangerine, tendering, traducing, uncertain, uncrating, uncreated, untrained. | |
-5 letters: agenetic, agenting, agreeing, angering, antidrug, antigene, anuretic, argentic, audience, cantered, catering, ceinture, centiare, centring, crannied, creatine, creating, crenated, cuneated, curating, daunting, decanter, decennia, denature, derating, detainer, deuteric, dicentra, dungaree, enacting, encaging, endanger, enduring, enneadic, enraging, entering, entrance, enuretic, erecting, eructing, gangrene, geniture, gentrice, gingered, gradient, granting, gratinee, greening, greeting, grunting, guarding, guidance, incanted, incenter, increate, incudate, indecent, indenter, inductee, indurate, intender, interage, interned, inturned, inundate, iterance, narceine, negating, reacting, recaning, recanted, receding, redating, reducing, regained, regauged, reinduce, reinduct, reneging, renigged, retagged, retained, retinued, retuning, reunited, ruinated, tangence, tendance, trancing, treading, trending, trudging, unageing, uncaging, uncaring, uncinate, uncrated, uncreate, undaring, underact, underage, underate, undereat, unearned, ungraced, unrented, unrigged, untagged, untinged, untraced, urinated. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 64 75 63 69 6E 67      41 67 65 6E 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100100 01110101 01100011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01000001 01100111 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e d u c i n g   A g e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0064 0075 0063 0069 006E 0067      0041 0067 0065 006E 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527170876975807323573718086 |
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