What are the oxidising agents that convert alcohol into carboxylic acids?

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The oxidising agent used to convert alcohols into carboxylic acid is:

Q. Alkaline potassium permanganate and potassium dichromate convert alcohols into carboxylic acids on oxidation.

Alkaline Potassium permanganate and Potassium dichromate convert alcohol into carboxylic acids by adding oxygen.

The reaction in which oxidising agents supply nascent oxygen for oxidation of alcohols to their respective acids is known as:

(a) Describe, giving the equation, a chemical reaction which is characteristic of saturated hydrocarbons (or alkanes).
(b) What is an oxidising agent? Name two oxidising agents which can oxidise ethanol to ethanoic acid.
(c) Describe one reaction of a carboxylic acid.

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