Usually means: Donates electrons, reduces other substances.
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  1. reducing agent: Merriam-Webster
  2. reducing agent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. reducing agent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. reducing agent: Collins English Dictionary
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  13. reducing agent: FreeDictionary.org
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  1. reducing agent: Legal dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reducing agent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. reducing agent: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  5. reducing agent: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
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Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Reducing Agent: A to Z of Terms related to the Thermal Spray Process and Surface Engineering
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (reducing agent)

noun:  (chemistry) Any substance that reduces, or donates electrons to, another; in so doing, it becomes oxidized.

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