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.
Thus, in the reaction, the reductant or reducing agent loses electrons and is oxidized, and the oxidant or oxidizing agent gains electrons and is reduced. The pair of an oxidizing and reducing agent that are involved in a particular reaction is called a redox pair.he reduction potential is a measure of the tendency of the oxidizing agent to be reduced. Its value is zero for H + + e â â Â½ H 2 by definition, positive for oxidizing agents stronger than H + (e.g., +2.866 V for F 2) and negative for oxidizing agents that are weaker than H + (e.g., â0.763 V for Zn 2+).