Unit 8 Review

Any Chemical process in which an atom or ion experiences an increase in oxidation state and is accompanied by a simultaneous decrease in oxidation state by another atom or ion

• Disproportionation

• Oxidation-Reduction reaction

The process in which an atom or ion experiences an increase in oxidation state

• Oxidation

• Reduction

The process in which an atom or ion experiences a decrease in oxidation state

• Oxidation

• Reduction

A substance with the potential to cause oxidation in another substance

• oxidizing agent

• reducing agent

A substance with a potential to cause reduction in another substance

• oxidizing agent

• reducing agent

Ions that are present in an oxidation-reduction reaction but do not participate in the oxidation or reduction

• disproportionation

• spectator ions

The oxidation component of the reaction

• reduction half reaction

• oxidation half reaction

The reduction component of the reaction

• reduction half reaction

• oxidation half reaction

An unbalanced chemical equation that includes the chemical formulas of the atoms, molecules,and ions in the reaction without the coefficients, charges or oxidation numbers

• ionic equation

• skeleton equation

A chemical equation in which any compound that can ionize is written as separate ions and which includes the oxidation number for each element in the equation

• skeleton equation

• ionic equation