Combined Science GCSE
Identifying oxidised and reduced species
What Identifying oxidised and reduced species means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Working out which species are oxidised and which are reduced in given chemical equations by tracking electron transfer and looking at the charges on the atoms and ions.
Topics that use Identifying oxidised and reduced species
- Reactions of acids with metals (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Electron transfer
- Electron transfer in equations
- Ionic half-equations
- Reactivity series and the position of hydrogen
- Salt formation and naming from the parent acid
- Spectator ions
- Acid–metal reactions as displacement reactions
- Redox reactions
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