{"id":24,"date":"2008-08-14T08:44:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T12:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibchem.com\/faq\/?p=24"},"modified":"2008-08-14T08:44:53","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T12:44:53","slug":"why-can-hydrogen-peroxide-act-as-both-an-oxidising-agent-and-a-reducing-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibchem.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/14\/why-can-hydrogen-peroxide-act-as-both-an-oxidising-agent-and-a-reducing-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Why can hydrogen peroxide act as both an oxidising agent and a reducing agent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hydrogen peroxide has the ability to gain or lose electrons, as its oxygen atoms are in the -1 oxidation state. By gaining electrons they can go to the -2 oxidation state, and by losing electrons they can go to the zero oxidation state (the element)<\/p>\n<p>When someting acts as an oxidising agent is gains electrons (removing them from the oxidised species). This can be shown by the relevant half-equations:<\/p>\n<p>H<sub>2<\/sub>O<sub>2<\/sub> + 2e &#8211;&gt; 2OH<sup>&#8211;<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>or in the presence of acid:<\/p>\n<p>H<sub>2<\/sub>O<sub>2<\/sub> + 2H<sup>+<\/sup> + 2e &#8211;&gt; 2H<sub>2<\/sub>O<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydrogen peroxide has the ability to gain or lose electrons, as its oxygen atoms are in the -1 oxidation state. By gaining electrons they can go to the -2 oxidation state, and by losing electrons they can go to the zero oxidation state (the element) When someting acts as an oxidising agent is gains electrons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[52,72,86],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inorganic","tag-hydrogen-peroxide","tag-oxidising-agent","tag-reducing-agent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibchem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibchem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibchem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibchem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibchem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibchem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibchem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibchem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibchem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}