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Which oxide of sulphur is capable of acting as oxidizing as well as reducing agent? Why?

aditya kashyap , 11 Years ago
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Komal

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Any substance containing an atom that it is at an intermediate oxidation level compared to all its possible oxidation states.

For example in hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) oxygen is at the -1 state. However oxygen can be also at 0 or -2.
Thus under proper conditions H2O2 acts a reducing agent and thus it oxidises to O2 (0 oxidation number) or as an oxidising agent and thus it gets reduced to O with an oxidation number -2.

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