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Description of key information

According the reference, selenous acids is characterised by a moderate oxidising nature. 

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Additional information

No testing data is available for oxidizing properties of selenous acid. However, based on the description in the handbook, it can not be excluded that selenous acid has oxidising properties.

Justification for classification or non-classification

Since it can not be excluded that selenous acid has oxidising properties based on the oxidising nature described in Holleman & Wiberg, 1995, it is proposed to classify selenous acid