Question

What is the most powerful oxidizing agent?

Answer 1

Oxidizing agent:

• "An oxidizing agent is a substance in a redox chemical reaction that gains or accepts an electron from a reducing agent."
• An oxidizer is any substance that oxidizes another substance and itself gets reduced.
• Examples of oxidizing agents include halogens, potassium nitrate, and nitric acid.
• The oxidizing power of the halogens decreases on moving down the group from Fluorine to Astatine.

Elemental Fluorine $\left(\mathrm{F}\right)$ is the strongest common oxidizing agent. ${\mathrm{F}}_2$ is such a good oxidizing agent as the metals and even water burst into flame in its presence.