The name Fauvel points to the French fauve ('chestnut, reddish-yellow, or fawn'), another sense of fauve meaning the class of wild animals whose coats are at least partly brown, and the medieval belief that a fallow horse was a symbol of deceit and dishonesty.
An oxidizing agent is a reactant that removes electrons from other reactants during a redox reaction. The oxidizing agent typically takes these electrons for itself, thus gaining electrons and being reduced. An oxidizing agent is thus an electron acceptor.
Oxidizing acids, being strong oxidizing agents, can often oxidize certain less reactive metals, in which the active oxidizing agent is not the H + ions. For example, copper is a rather unreactive metal, and has no reaction with concentrated hydrochloric acid.ll Broensted brÃ¸nsted acids can act as oxidizing, agents because the acidic proton can be reduced to hydrogen. Gas some acids contain other structures that act as stronger oxidizing agents than hydrogen. Ion, generally they contain oxygen in the anionic. structure