13.1 Oxidation and Reduction

Question 1

What is metallurgy?

Answer 1

The science and technology of extracting metals from their naturally occurring compounds and adapting them for useful purposes

Question 2

What is reduction?

Answer 2

Producing metals from their compounds

Question 3

What is a reducing agent?

Answer 3

A substance that promotes the reduction of a metal compound to an elemental metal

Question 4

What is oxidation?

Answer 4

The reactions of substances with oxygen

Question 5

What is an oxidizing agent?

Answer 5

A substance that causes or promotes the oxidation of metal to produce a metal compound

Question 6

What is a half reaction?

Answer 6

A balanced chemical equation that represents either a loss or gain of electrons by a substance

Question 7

What is the gain of electrons known as?

Answer 7

Reduction

Question 8

What is the loss of electrons known as?

Answer 8

Oxidation

Question 9

What is a redox reaction?

Answer 9

A reaction in which electrons are transferred between entities