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How is electropositive character related to reducing property of an element ? How does it vary in the group?

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Electropositive character is defined as the tendency of the element to lose electornic raducing porperty of an element is its ability to give up electrons(s) and by virute of this ability it reduced the other element .The greater the electropositive charcater the more is its reducing property in a group reducing property increases from top to bottom as electropositive character increases from top to bottom
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