Which of these statements is true?

a. If a compound is oxidized, it is gaining electrons.

b. If a base is neutralized, it is gaining protons.

c. Elements that are metals cannot be oxidized.

d. If hydrogen gas is generated in a reaction, it must be an acid–base reaction.

Video transcript

Hello everyone today we are being presented with the following statement and then asked to determine which of the following statements is true. So it says a bronze said lori is defined, defined acid based reactions as proton transfer reactions where a weak acid will have a strong conjugate base in terms of a redox reaction, which of the following statements is true. So A says electrons are analogous to protons and a strong base is analogous to a strong oxidizing agent and so is going to go ahead and be our answer for this question here recall that oxidizing agents are reduced and when they are reduced they gain electrons. So we're gonna say gain electrons and a strong oxidizing agent in this example would be analogous to a strong base because strong bases also gain electrons. I hope this helped. And until next time.