Chemistry A-Level
strength of halide reducing agents
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Among the halides the iodide ion is the strongest reducing agent, which is why it alone is able to reduce sulfur in concentrated sulfuric acid as far as hydrogen sulfide.
Topics that use strength of halide reducing agents
- Oxidation, reduction and redox equations (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- combining half-equations
- Disproportionation
- Half-equations
- Oxidation
- Oxidising Agent
- Reduction
- balancing with H₂O and H⁺
- common oxidising agents
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