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why sulphurtrioxide acts as reducing agent only?

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why sulphurtrioxide acts as reducing agent only?

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Krishna Gopal Singh

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9 Feb 2012 10:30:31 IST

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It does not acts as a reducing agent. For it to work as a reducing agent it has to get oxidised. And sulphur already has +6 oxidation state in SO3 so it can't get oxidised.

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