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.
An oxidizing agent is one that causes an oxidation to happen. Oxygen, the second most electronegati â¦ ve atom of the periodic table, has an electronegativity value of 3.5. This often creates polarity that strongly attracts electrons towards the oxygen atom. In the case where any atom gains an electron, it is a reduction.