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reductant

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for reductant.

Editorial note

They're using cysteine as a reductant, so not all of the energy is coming from light.

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Quick take

(chemistry) Synonym of reducing agent.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

(chemistry) Synonym of reducing agent.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for reductant.

noun

(chemistry) Synonym of reducing agent.

Example sentences

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They're using cysteine as a reductant, so not all of the energy is coming from light.

2

At 57% methanol and 30% hydrazine hydrate (by weight), the reductant wasn't exactly innocuous either.

3

Normally one does not think of water as a reductant, but as a facilitator oxidation.

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The good news is that catalytic converters to destroy NOx are established technology, and they happen to use ammonia as a reductant.

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Take an oxidizer and a reductant (oxidizers don't need to contain oxygen here).

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We checksum, run reductant servers, and just generally tolerate and work around way more failures and weirdness than we should.

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Cyanos use water as a reductant - as an electron donor.

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Do the books specifically address using water as a reductant?

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No reductant is needed, quite the opposite.

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Also, cysteine is used as a reductant - as soon as they will try to use water as an electron donor the efficiencies will like ly to go down.

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CO is not the only reductant that plays a role Hydrogen primarily from the humidity contained within injected gas also plays a role in the heat balance of the furnace.

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[0] even more so as the reductant and oxidizer were picked for their hypergolic combination, ground explosion is not unheard of for 163.

Quote examples

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The abstract of the reference given says "With nuclear heat, the fossil fuel--re-formed to a suitable reductant--is confined to the chemical role and not used as a source of heat." So, still using coal.

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The highest methods in terms of strength of evidence obtainable with remote sensing would be finding "deviations from thermodynamic equilibrium and/or kinetics" of "co-located reductant and oxidant" or "element or isotope fractionations indicative of metabolism".

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use reductant in a sentence?

They're using cysteine as a reductant, so not all of the energy is coming from light.

What does reductant mean?

(chemistry) Synonym of reducing agent.

What part of speech is reductant?

reductant is commonly used as noun.