redukte

Redukte is a term found in several European languages to denote substances that have undergone reduction, i.e., the products or reduced forms produced by a reductive transformation. In English-language chemistry, redukte is uncommon; the standard terms are reduction product or reduced form. When redukte appears in texts, it usually designates the substance obtained after a reduction reaction.

In chemistry, reduction is characterized by gain of electrons or a decrease in oxidation state. The redukte, in this usage, is the reduced form of the starting compound. For a generic substrate A reduced to B, B may be described as the redukte of A. The precise sense depends on language and source, and the term should be defined in context.

Beyond pure chemistry, redukte can appear in materials science and metallurgy as a translation for reduction products formed by removing oxygen or other elements from oxides and related compounds. The product is typically referred to as the reduction product in modern literature, with redukte serving as a historical or translated label.

See also: reduction product, redox, reducing agent.