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.
A compound that is oxidized is referred to as a reducing agent, while a compound that is reduced is referred to as the oxidizing agent. Continue to.............. Redox Reactions & Equations Oxidation Number Assignments Oxidation-Reduction Test Sheet Test Answers.