Grade 11Inorganic Chemistry

What is mean by Reducing Power? And wjats the trend for it in periodic table.

SOHAM Shinde

9 Years agoGrade 11

3 Answers

Umakant biswal

Approved Tutor Answer9 Years ago

dear soham
Reducing power is the ability of a chemical to reduce other substances, or the environment.
and reduce to other substances means addition of hydrogen and removal of oxygen and also gain of electron ,
the reducing power is increasing when going down the group
reducing power has to deal with its reactivity, that is the ease at the atom to be oxidies to form cation. since going down the group, the size of atom increase, causing the attraction of the nucleus towards the valence electrons weaker, which accounts for higher reactivity
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Sadia Rahman

7 Years ago

Reducing power is an ability of an element to reduce other element by losing its electrons which would be utilised by the other compound to get reduced...reducing power increases down the group as the attraction force decreases between atoms and the compund can lose electrons much easily .thus, the reducing power increases

Rishi Sharma

6 Years ago

Dear Student,
Please find below the solution to your problem.

Reducing power is the ability of a chemical to reduce other substances, or the environment. and reduce to other substances means addition of hydrogen and removal of oxygen and also gain of electron , the reducing power is increasing when going down the group reducing power has to deal with its reactivity, that is the ease at the atom to be oxidies to form cation. since going down the group, the size of atom increase, causing the attraction of the nucleus towards the valence electrons weaker, which accounts for higher reactivity

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