Ice it. Ice your injury for 20 to 30 minutes every 3 to 4 hours to reduce pain and swelling. Continue this for 2 or 3 days, or until the pain is gone. Compress your leg. Use an elastic bandage around the lower leg and ankle to keep down swelling.
Finally, two terms you may run across in the future are oxidizing agent (or oxidant) and a reducing agent (reductant). An oxidizing agent causes oxidation and is reduced in the reaction. A reducing agent causes the reduction in the redox reaction. The reducing agent is oxidized in the reaction.
If a species is oxidized its oxidation number increases, therefore it has to cause a reduction in another species-hence, it is the reducing agent. Swenis said: Hey guys, I've been looking at some old practice exams in preparation for a general chemistry test I have here in three hours or so.5. Location: Los Angeles, CA. Species oxidized is the atom that is being oxidized (oxidized is losing electrons), whereas the oxidizing agent is the one that is doing the oxidizing...therefore, the oxidizing agent is being reduced.