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.
Oxidation-loss of electrons/gain of oxygen. Species oxidized-the one that lost electrons or gained ozygen. Species reduced-the one that gained electrons or lost oxygen.Oxidizing agent-gets reduced.Reducing agent-gets oxidized. In your equation, Mg went from 0 oxidation number to +2, i.e lost electrons i.e. got oxidized i.e. is the reducing agent.5. Location: Los Angeles, CA. Species oxidized is the atom that is being oxidized (oxidized is losing electrons), whereas the oxidizing agent is the one that is doing the oxidizing...therefore, the oxidizing agent is being reduced.