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Laboratory Tips Safety proceedures, test reagents, drilling rubber stoppers, bending glass tubes, etc. Contributed to by chemists.

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Old 2003-08-28, 21:20
Follylover Follylover is offline
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Default ? for Tryp on Oxalic Acid

I have posted this to no avail. Will Tryp of AM or someone else who is qualified tell me about reducing qualities about Oxalic Acid? Please? Like, what will it reduce, and such. That is all. Is there a place I can go to for info? Thanks.
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Old 2003-08-29, 01:55
tryptamine tryptamine is offline
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Default Re: ? for Tryp on Oxalic Acid

Oxalic acid is not a reducing agent.
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Old 2003-08-29, 03:43
Gray Gray is offline
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Default Re: ? for Tryp on Oxalic Acid

Sure it's a reducing agent. It may not often be employed as such in the lab, but it can be oxidized by other substances. It'll reduce KMnO4 for sure. That's also how it's used as a wood bleach, by reducing colorful compounds to colorless ones (so we know it works on at least some organic compounds too). But I don't have too many other useful examples for you. Ascorbic acid is more interesting if you want a more potent reducing agent.
 
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