The name Fauvel points to the French fauve ('chestnut, reddish-yellow, or fawn'), another sense of fauve meaning the class of wild animals whose coats are at least partly brown, and the medieval belief that a fallow horse was a symbol of deceit and dishonesty.
An oxidizing agent is a reactant that removes electrons from other reactants during a redox reaction. The oxidizing agent typically takes these electrons for itself, thus gaining electrons and being reduced. An oxidizing agent is thus an electron acceptor.
Oxygen gas (O2) is one of the strongest oxidizing agents known. The explanation for this is that _____. 1) oxygen is so abundant in the atmosphere. 2) oxygen gas is composed of two atoms of oxygen. 3) oxygen gas contains a double bond. 4) the oxygen atom is very electronegative.