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Reducing Agent

Definition: Reducing Agent

Reducing Agent

Noun

1. 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.
 



Specialty Definitions: Reducing Agent

DomainDefinitions

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Reducing Agent

Synonyms: reducer (n), reductant (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: reductant (chemical industry).

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Crosswords: Reducing Agent

English words defined with "reducing agent": calcium hydrideDeoxidizergallic acidhydrazine, hydriodic acid, hydrolith, Hydroxylamine, hypophosphorous acidreducing, reductionSodium amalgam. (references)
Specialty definitions using "reducing agent": arsenious acid, arsenious oxide, As2O3Coal coke, copper segregation processDithiothreitolEflornithineferro-titanium, flame inhibitor, frotherNorsk-Staal processrat poison, reduction smeltingslurry blasting agentsWalcheren Expedition. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Reducing Agent

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

reducing agent

15
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Modern Translations: Reducing Agent

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

восстановитель (regenerator, renovator, restorer). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Swedish

  

reduktionsmedel. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

indirgen madde. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Reducing Agent

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Reducing Agent


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 64 75 63 69 6E 67      41 67 65 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

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)

&#82 &#101 &#100 &#117 &#99 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#65 &#103 &#101 &#110 &#116

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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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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