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.
Reduction is loss of oxygen. For example, in the extraction of iron from its ore: Because both reduction and oxidation are going on side-by-side, this is known as a redox reaction. Oxidising and reducing agents An oxidising agent is substance which oxidises something else.