Now usually accompanied with the terms of reduction and oxidation are the ideas of the reducing agent and the oxidizing agent. But what you need to realize here is that reduction in oxidation are the opposites of oxidizing and reducing agents. We're going to say the oxidizing agent is just the element or compound that is reduced, and then reducing agent is the element or compound that is oxidized.
So add this to your idea of Leo, the lion goes GRR. OK, so if you've been oxidized, you're the reducing agent. If you've been reduced, you're the oxidizing agent. I know it can be a little bit weird, but just remember they're opposites of one another.
If we can remember that, then we'll be able to solve redox reaction questions that ask us to identify what's been oxidized, what's been reduced, what's been oxidizing agent and what's the reducing agent.
