Associations to the word «Reductant»

Wiktionary

REDUCTANT, noun. (chemistry) A reducing agent

Dictionary definition

REDUCTANT, noun. A substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope